Poor teary Boehner - he hates the new media - Granite Grok

Poor teary Boehner – he hates the new media

boehner_clownYet another failure by an old style politician to adapt to the speed of the Internet (emphasis mine, reformatted):

…Any interaction with a Democrat risks being covered by conservative outlets as a potential betrayal of the GOP, he said.  “Boehner blamed figures on the right who purchase lists of conservative activists and then position themselves as leaders of a movement. He said talks between party leaders can be ruined by ‘one person who creates a committee to preserve the Constitution’ and can ‘blast out information quickly. You used to have a little breathing room–24 hours, 48 hours before it actually got in the press. Well, that’s gone. Everything today is instant,’ he said.

…“Boehner pointed to the fragmentation of the national media as another reason for the paralysis and what he sees as alarming intensity and partisanship in politics. “’What’s making everything even worse today is because we have so much news, people get to choose where they get their news,” Boehner said. “It used to be we had three big TV networks, five big newspapers, and five big radio stations and whatever they said was the news. Everybody else followed what they do.’”

No longer, Boehner lamented.

No longer” – and that’s a good thing.  “No longer” – I bet that was the lament of the stone workers when parchment was first created.  “No longer” – I bet that was the cri de coeur of the quill makers when first learning of the Gutenberg press. “No longer” – I bet that was the curse that the newspaper guilds started whine when radio and TV started to grab their relevance.  “No longer” – the meltdown of the ancient politicians that have learned the hard way of how the Internet has democratized the news gathering, dissemination, and opining on the news of the day.  “No longer” – it really means the ability of pols to do sleight of hands in dark corners (re: 24 hours, 48 hours) without being seen.

I certainly don’t agree with a lot of it but the First Amendment protects it all. Me?  I like, a whole lot, a lot more Big Flashlights looking into the corners of Power – and seeing surprised eyes caught in their glare.  Best of all?

No longer” – am I trapped in that liberal space that made up the “three big TV networks, five big newspapers, and five big radio stations and whatever they said was the news” as we have found out that they weren’t always telling us the whole truth.  I love having choice, the epitome

(H/T: CNSNews)

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