Q Wrote:
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> Don't be so relieved.
>
> TV news ratings and newspaper readership numbers
> (in percentages of population) were declining long
> before the internet came of age. A huge part of
> that decline was fueled by people's search for
> alternatives, including the alternative of
> ignoring the media altogether - most of the time!
> Call it the Dan Blather syndrome.
>
> It was not until long after the decline began,
> that TV stations and newspapers began putting
> their own stuff on the net. It was a defensive
> act in reality.
>
> Trouble is, what makes anyone think news found on
> the internet will be any more accurate or less one
> sided. There is though, the slight possibility
> with the internet, that the shear numbers of
> seemingly independent sources - just might make
> possible a more diverse set of viewpoints being
> heard.
>
> One can only hope! --- too bad the traditional
> media wasn't interested in presenting diverse
> viewpoints. It truely was their downfall.

On the other hand, were it not for the media, most people would've never heard about this incident, right?

OK, your move . . .