I watched the documentary News War on PBS the other night. I know, I know, I vowed never to watch them again, but I had heard about this show on the Conservative Blogs and I wanted to watch what they were saying about the internet and blogging in particular.

I decided to comment on a clip from John Carroll (Click here for the whole interview), and was amazed that not only did he completely miss the point of Blogging and the self correcting mechanisms that are in place, but he was so absolutely depressed, contemplating the loss of his gatekeeper roll, and completely at a loss to know what to think and what to do.
THE NEWS:
His big question…
Who is going to pay for it?
With video phones at every event in the world (Including Sadaams Hanging), I think we can safely say that citizen journalists have got things covered in terms of men and women on the “street”. As for the ability of the average dolt to figure out what those You Tube videos mean, for John C, he figures that unless some socialist with a journalism degree from Harvard is analyzing and spoon feeding the context of that news to us plebians who make up the great unwashed masses of America and the world, we just don’t have the brains to figure it out for ourselves.
He really does not understand the power of the web, or the fact that newspapers were not serving the Capitalist and Conservative half of the population in America for decades. The fact that the publishing world collectively promotes Marxism is indisputable. Except for a few journals, magazines, a little big of conservative press, and the Conservative Chronicle, for decades the socialists in our society ruled the day.
In the video I talk about Cleon Skousens book The Naked Communist. Here is a link to the complete list, of which I outlined just a few points related to the press and student activism.
I have an idea for John and his reporter friends, editors, and editorialists. As print media winds down, we the people are still going to have a need for newspapers.
You know… to line our bird cages, help train our puppies, and to use to start fires when camping. Because of this great need, I would like to suggest that John start a new American Paper.
He could call it something catchy…like Pravda, and all the die hards in the journalism world who are in deep shock and mourning that the newspapers are dying, could write for it, and they could make it a non-profit, and sell it to people who need that paper to use as a pooper scooper for their dogs.
Happy Trails!
Jenny Hatch