Reply #26: The corporate elite try and dismiss the net

[LiberalLovinLug]

It's obvious to anyone that the MSM TV companies are trying their best to marginalize any news reaped from the internet as what "some anonymous person wrote on some blog somewhere"

That is until they get all their pieces lined up in a row and defeat the net neutrality laws so that only a handful of corporations decide what gets on the net and what does not, and how much you will pay for it.
I know that now it seems that that will never happen, but we all have to be vigilant in the most important free speech fight of our generation.

And I don't see why an online news blog/sources/message board cannot have a paid reporter. The Huffington Post on the left and the Drudge Report on the right are probably the most well known sites. And as the traffic increases and high-speed internet is spread out further into rural areas, there will be an ever increasing audience for ad revenue. As internet bandwidth technology gets better and computers get faster, and monitors get larger, we won't be using our TVs anymore. Doesn't Raw Story already have a paid reporter?

The point is that getting your news from the internet is far superior to a 10 minute loop of the most infotainment appealing stories of the day read by pampered talking heads on the television. The power shifts to the news gatherer. It becomes not "We Report - You Decide" More like "We Report - You check other sources on the same story instantly - You Decide"

As long as we keep the corporate net nannies at bay, and more and more of the population discovers how to surf for the news, it should bode well for news hounds and truth seekers.