Correlation
Funny how that worked: Gun rights and the death of newspapers
I think without the internet, we’d still have 90s era gun laws.
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March 14th, 2012 at 11:15 am
Oh yeah before the internet the sympathetic media could tell the big lie and people would have no means to check if it was in fact a lie.
March 14th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Yep. “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
With the advent of the internet, the truth has a fightin’ chance now…
March 14th, 2012 at 11:22 am
Amen.
March 14th, 2012 at 11:44 am
Before the Internet Walter Cronkite told America that we lost the Tet Offensive in Vietnam. Not knowing any better, America believed him.
After the Internet Dan Rather told America that he had documents critical of George Bush’s National Guard service. “The Internet” proved those documents were fake and Dan Rather was fired. Without the Internet, Dan Rather’s lie would have been as successful as Walter Cronkite’s.
Keep in mind that the media lies about EVERYTHING. Thank goodness we have the Internet now.
March 14th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
I’m reminded of this.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
― Michael Crichton
March 14th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
“The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it.”
– John Gilmore
There’s a 1-1 relationship between the personal empowerment of personal communications that the internet provides and the empowerment of personal protection that the 2nd Amendment provides.
March 14th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Unfortunately newspapers will NOT extinct themselves in the free market, it will not be allowed. There WILL be bailouts and govt intervention. Just like GM, the propaganda mills are too big to fail and we will pay for it. Sure, the attempt to save newspapers (but not all of them, just the Pravda types) will be a disaster, but a lot of money will be wasted doing it.
March 14th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
Sure wish Rand had lived to see it.
But, you know, Breitbart did, so there is that.
Five Star Final.
March 14th, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Print media will NOT go away. To the contrary, it flourish, but NOT as the current print media of today. The Liberal-Socialist MSM will wither and die. The Goobermint, all butt-hurt about their lapdog dead-tree media having been killed off by the New Media of the internet, will crack down *on* new media, imposing more and more Draconian rules like registering as a *journalist*, being licensed by FedGov to use the Internet to disseminate information, etc., etc., etc.
AT that point you will see the *new media* resorting to printing presses to get the word out anonymously, and the paradigm will shift to where the MSM will be the *officially licensed and approved* internet news sources, while the new media, patriotic dissenting voices, et al, will take the path of least Goobermint oversight and regulatory burden…
Whats the old saw? Everything Old is new again…
March 14th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Without the net, I bet they would have banned them by now.
March 15th, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Without the internet we’d be worse than the palce where great britian used to be. Because I would fully expect door to door confiscation, murdering all those who oppose. I mean who’s going to report it if it did happen? We already know the MSM will always covedr up for the democrats.
March 15th, 2012 at 11:51 pm
Without the innernut, we would have to read newspapers to get the local news. I can live with that. The thing is, at this point in time, I seem to hate trees. I just hate them, and I don’t know why.