The American Spectator

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BR>The issue Mr. Henry is not how but when. Look at the MSM dailies. All of them are operating on thin to nonexistent margins; hence the outbreak of fraud committed in an attempt to prop up ad revenue rates. NYT has had a 50% drop in stock price over the last 6 months and has just announced a downward dividend adjustment to stockholders. The point is many of the current dailies are on their way out as a going concern. p>With lower cost structures, faster delivery, ability to rapidly assess content the Blogs are here to stay. The Blogs as Open Source Journalism will become the future of reporting. With a low barrier to entry the best and brightest (and the worst and dumbest as well) will forge documentation online. Alliances will be built. In an effort to maintain speed of delivery, new modes of operations between alliances, provider, freelancer and consumer will be designed. Blogs will prosper and supplant pulp news organizations. Those MSM dailies that wakeup and transition online will survive, the rest will perish. BR>-- John McGinnis BR>Arlington, Texas p>I couldn't even finish the article "What Blogs Can't Do." BR>What a stupid notion that Bloggers want the demise of mainstream media. What we (the people... I'm not a blogger) want is a media worthy of the First Amendment. The media is given such rich freedom because it has a responsibility to the public. I believe the people are weary of what the media has allowed itself to become, a battleground between truth and lies and the lies take the day. We have been force-fed lies for so long, this little victory over Dan (and yes, he should be mercilessly crucified for all the damage he has done and the lives he has destroyed ) is merely a slightly satisfying breeze in a long hot desert of media filth. p>We want and need the media, YES. But not a media controlled by ideologues who oppose every vestige of Western culture. Report the news. If I want to tune into satyr or comedy or commentary, I will. But don't feed me [garbage] in the name of objectivity. BR>-- John p>Blogs are an "addition to," not an "instead of." As in television is an addition to movies. Radio is in addition to newspapers. Prowler is in addition to print magazine. p>I say "welcome aboard" to all. BR>-- Annette Cwik p>

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