Hi Pearl,

You’re absolutely right. It’s amazing how long these things sometimes take, though. I can remember turning Rather off back in the ’80s. We’d all talk at work about what a biased moron hew was, but we didn’t really have a lot of alternatives or much of a voice. Cable slowly gave us choices and now the internet has given us a very loud voice.

I’m not optimistic that the MSM will reform itself anytine soon, but I’m pretty sure it will happen over time.

Ya gotta wonder what the suits in the news organizations were thinking when Drudge broke on the scene. I’d have hired ten Drudges on the spot. It was patently obvious that the net would grow into a powerful investigating force as well as distribution channel. I think they got the distribution part, but not the investigating piece.

I wonder why the MSM blogs are so lame, though