On Thu, 12 Jan 1995, Brad Parsons wrote:
From: Skip Leuschner <skipl@pacifier.com>
I see C.Chung's program as one of the first vollies in a new phase of a TV/print media project.
Internet and talk radio emerged as political forces in the '94 election. If political influence by the media is a zero-sum game, as I believe it is, then the TV and print media must look to their own survival by trying to discredit or regulate their talk radio/internet competition.
Clearly. I think Time magazine, as they come onto the Internet, is realizing that the culture here does not take well to bogus and misleading journalism. The Time reporter who wrote the article on the modern militia movement in the US asked on talk.politics.guns what people thought about his article - oh my, you've never seen such a flamefest! Not to mention the immense amount of pro-firearm opinions on the Time WWW talkback area. For a magazine which has publically announced that they are anti-RKBA, I think they are viewing all of this with some dismay. That is only a single issue - I think as more standard media groups come on-line, they will have to choose either to try to destroy the net through demonizing it, or change with it into an adaptive reporting system with traditional journalistic ethics. -Thomas