The Old Media Follow, Doesn’t Create, News

Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and Sean Haniti cannot be pushed aside as just “right wingers” with no voice. It’s their work, and the work of some on the internet, and mainly Fox News (which includes Haniti and Beck), that gave President Obama and the left the run for their money in recent weeks, despite the tireless attempts of the old media outlets to ignore it.

Following are just a few instances where Fox News and others held President Obama accountable, and/or had the power to adjust the state of affairs in this country. More so: it forced the old media to report news that they otherwise ignored.

Here it is:

       The White House had an email address where people from all over the country had the chance of reporting “fishy” activities against the WH agenda of Health Care Reform. After an outcry from the right, the email address was scrapped.

       President Obama was about to give a speech to school kids. From my perspective, I didn’t see any problem with it. However, some on the right did, and had the administration and its apologists in the media sweat about it a few days.

       A self-admitted communist racist served as the so-called Jobs Zar for Obama. After the right pounced on it and the old media ignored it for weeks, Jones resigned in shame.

      ACORN was busted time and again by a crew of two and was reported and debated by the right wingers. The old media had limited to no mention of it, yet before anyone (relying on the old media for information) knew, the House voted overwhelmingly to strip that fraudster group from getting federal funds.

All these instances took place in a matter of weeks. It proves clearly that the old media no more controls the minds of the American people, or the discourse of this nation. Better yet, it is “the right” that creates news these days and the old media need to follow inline, sooner rather than later.