The Few And The Mighty
Who needs the New York Times when you have InstaPundit and Power Line on your side? Those and many other sites, referred to by InstaPundit’s Glenn Reynolds as “an Army of Davids,” have helped the Bush Administration connect to his supporters and bypass the mainstream media Goliath to do so.
Strategery author Bill Sammon picked up some choice quotes from the President about the rise of alternatives to the mainstream, where reporters and op-ed columnists frequently write in lockstep against the Administration’s policies.
“I think what’s healthy is that there’s no monopoly on the news,” Bush said. “There’s competition. There’s competition for the attention of, you know, 290 million people, or whatever it is.
“And the amazing thing about this world we live in is that there’s a kind of free-flowing, kind of bulletin board of ideas and thoughts out there in the ether space, sometimes landing on somebody’s desk and sometimes not, but always available. It’s a very interesting period.”
“It’s the beginning of the twenty-first century; it also happens to be the beginning of-or near the beginning-of a revolution in newsgathering and dissemination,” he said. “Not in newsmaking-that tends to be pretty consistent.”
The whole world doesn’t have to read blogs, but the few people that do, counts as much as the majority who do not read blogs.
