Leftist Media Missed A Turn To The Right

Reposted as history. Originally posted in May of 2005.

by Janet Albrechsten - May 18th, 2005

With much of the blogo-sphere tilting right, and looking - dare one say it - decidedly mainstream, parts of the old media are bunkering down. They have become the new reactionaries, sticking to what Anderson calls their illiberal liberalism. Old media derides the blogger as "a guy sitting in his living room in his pyjamas writing what he thinks". Old media detests the Fox phenomenon and those dastardly "shock jocks" -- you know, those radio broadcasters who often attract more listeners than newspapers have readers.

But their sniping cannot hide the fact that the mainstream media is no longer the gatekeeper of information. The gates are open and even a guy in pyjamas can do a better job than old media.

It is interesting that even in Australia, the leftist bias of American MSM is totally clear. It appears that the Internet has reached Australia. I wonder why no one in our major newspapers of TV stations seems to get what blogs are about. Is it perhaps that they are not just biased, but so biased they are incapable of change?