Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. I am Officially declaring dead, the term Main Stream Media. It's friggin Done! Not the entity, just the term. It is over used and really in these days and times its a term that no longer has use or meaning. The term MSM is as relevant as thou, forsooth, or altavista.
Why, you ask?
Because all friggin media is friggin main stream now!!!
Here's a MSM newsflash for all of you that write blogs, comments, or are a pundit, or a politician: IT IS NO LONGER THE 90's, YOU ARE IN COMPLETE CONTROL OF YOUR MEDIA INTAKE.
When I was a kid there was no such thing as the internet. There were basically 4 Real Channels and some crappy UHF ones that you could barely watch. If you didn't get your news from the newspaper or channels 2,5,7, or 9 (In Chicago they were CBS, NBC, ABC, and WGN, Fox came later) it didn't exist. Talk radio was in its birthing stages . In 1980 CNN was born (I was 2 years Old) so if you had the money to have cable you could watch Ted Turners News. That was basically it. If a tree fell in a forest and Mike Wallace wasn't there, it didn't exist.
We live in an age where every single moment of a life can be documented. Hell, in my lifetime I've seen Britney Spears go from CUTE KID to JAILBAIT to MILF. We have access to virtually every statement that a politician has made from like (2000 to present). All of this is at the tip of our fingertips. Think about this, 10,000 of you will read portions of this posting(and NOT put it on the rec list[I can pander with the best of them]). All of you found it with very little effort or difficulty. I didn't spend a penny to create or distribute it (thanks Kos) but more people will read it than will read the Chicago Reader. In the same column on the side row there will be at least 5 post bemoaning some coverage or lack of coverage from the Main Stream Media. Heck, at a recent forum the only thing that Karl Rove and David Plouffe agreed with was that their hate of the Main Stream Media.
Lets Face the Facts. Daily Kos is MSM. MSNBC is MSM. Redstate (I feel dirty typing it) is MSM, FoxNews is MSM. Politico is MSM. HuffPo is MSM. Little Green Footballs is MSM. Rush Limbaugh (the king of Railing against the media) is MSM. Keith Olberman is MSM. Glenn Beck (as fucking loony as he is) is still a part of the MSM.
All of these sites, all of those shows get more views, hits, readers, listeners, or whatever metric that we use than the traditional Six O'Clock News. And more subscribers than most major newspapers. Yet they all spend considerable time bashing what some newscaster in Schenectady will or won't cover on their broadcast. Come on folks.
Remember the whole gift flap in with the Ipod in England? Remember how many folks on the right kept screaming how no one will cover Obama giving the Queen an ipod containing his speech, and how everyone on the left was up in arms because no one covered that he'd also given had her a rare song book. Think about how ridiculous that was. It happened in ENGLAND, 3,129 miles away and we knew about it, and more importantly, we could gripe about it seven friggin minutes after it happened. WTF. Get a grip. We are the mainstream media.
At some point the Kid that has been railing against the adults keeping him down has to realize that he's now all grown up (Unless of course that kid is Bart Simpson).
According to research, the first instance of someone getting angry at the Main Stream Media occurred a couple hundred years ago. Three Red Coats sat in a bar and bitched about Paul Revere's one sided coverage of the British Invasion. That damn Paul. What would history had been like if Paul Revere just had a twitter account with 1 million friends?