I would suggest that everyone continue to email CBS and let them know what you think. Keep their feet to the the fire.

This was my last email to CBS Evening News:

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It’s the beginning of the end, CBS, and you don’t even know it.

Over at Belmont Club, he compares the power of bloggers on the Internet to that of the introduction of the long-bow against the armored knight. An appropriate analogy, I would say.

Here are a few commenters’ views from his weblog:

>This revolution will be at least as big as that spawned by Gutenberg when his printer made books available to the masses.

>Now the power of publishing is becoming available on a similar scale, and many of the old guard will become extinct.

>Just as the widespread availability of books preceded the downfall of monarchy, so the arrival of the Internet foreshadows massive upheavals in the social order of today.

># posted by EvilPundit : 1:33 PM

>Sir, the ecomonmetrics of scale is awesome. Think about the relative cost in medieval terms of the two weapons systems, longbow vs. knight-in-armor.

>Maps perfectly– Charles Johnson can run a thousand “stringers” bringing in information at miniscule costs, compared to CBS.

># posted by jinnderella : 1:39 PM

>Yes, and the internet “stringers” collectively bring to their reporting the distillation of thousands of years of personal expertise and life experiences to inform the readers. No news organization can mobilize on that scale with similar speed.

># posted by ter0 : 2:13 PM

Dan Rather saying that the documents were real because he said so will be one of defining moments of the end of your monopoly on information.

You’re trying to fight thousands of intelligent “stringers” around the world. You’re toast, Rather and CBS.

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