After Glenn put up his I told you so post he notes something significant:
Now why should some professor in Knoxville be able to determine what our national reporters in Washington and New York City could not?
Do we not pay these people — through the extra pennies we pay on a product for advertisements — to know these things?
I think it’s not just a question of paying attention, it’s all about what you choose to report.
The MSM hasn’t chosen to report the failure of the One Nation rally. They haven’t chosen to show the trash photos or the comparison shots of the crowd. They didn’t choose to report on the DOJ scandal or Van Jones et/al.
Yet a vast amount of Americans knew because of social media. The MSM were irrelevant because they came late to a story that was already told in e-mail boxes, tweets and facebook pages worldwide.
Goliath might not be paying attention but it could be because Goliath would rather be ignorant about a fact they don’t want to acknowledge.
One might survive in a niche market but if your business is information and analysis and you are being scooped by people in the street you’d better look for another business pronto.
Update: Along those same lines I wonder if the Torrance Daily Breeze will find this story newsworthy?
California Democrat Rep. Jane Harman’s family business is laying off American workers – including engineering employees in California — and shifting jobs overseas.
If history is the judge I wouldn’t bet on the breeze
