On a day when the best news that could be found for politics was that a candidate flies in a helicopter, a candidate goes to church, and sometimes birds get inside buildings, how did the media let something like this slip their grasp? (Just watch to where they show the lines of people coming down the hill)
It wasn't just in Los Angeles either. These things were going on all over the country. Ron Paul took part in the same kind reenactment himself. This was a huge story and a place like LA should have had helicopters flying over head giving us a sense of how huge this movement is.
Of course, that would ruin the "dozen spammers" and "will these people leave their computers?" stories they have been running from the beginning.
This post isn't about the Old Media black out of Ron Paul because it's way too late now. Old Media lost and the Revolution is real and Ron Paul is going to be the Republican nominee unless the powers that be alter the vote.
The continued media black out will change all future elections though.
I have received several emails about upcoming elections and I think that voter turnout for all other elections is going to go up, at least for next year. I don't know how many people will run for congress to try and get the current set of losers out but there will probably be some. No matter how many, people will be looking into their representatives a bit closer and making more informed decisions. This is a great thing. Ron Paul's rise to Rock Star status has made people care again.
More importantly for Old Media is that people are going to turn to the Internet for political information first. There was already a slow trend in that direction but this election will speed up that process. Everyone, even the couch potatoes, have known for a while that the media has its bias and that you don't really get the *news* when you watch TV but they accepted it because it's easy and they didn't understand just how much of an agenda Old Media had.
The Ron Paul Revolution has turned the spotlight onto that bias in a way that probably has them squirming like an insect under a magnifying glass in the sun. Is it possible for them to undo the damage? Not without getting Ron Paul elected as president.
Ron Paul is being chosen as man of the year by group after group and magazine after magazine. He is one of the most important figures of 2007 and Old Media is still trying to suppress it. Each day, the lack of coverage becomes more blatant and each day more people turn to the Internet to find out what they are missing. Every single person that gets online will have their eyes opened to what has been going on.
Out of disgust, people will turn off network news. The 3-letter boyz will have to get online and compete with the millions of us that are spreading the news. Camcorders and blogs will show what is really happening in the world and Old Media will be stuck with the Sisyphean task of trying to put spin on the entire blogosphere.
Good luck with that.
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