Media: Who Really Runs this Country?

As many of you know, I've been working on the campaign trail these last few weeks. Bob Turner is running to unseat Anthony Weiner, and I've been busy helping with anything I can, especially in the media department where I coordinate many news network connections. I wanted to talk about politics in the information age; the age where media can take away just as much power as it has bestowed to the voter.

Since the advent of the internet, it has of course become more difficult for politicians to hide behind voter ignorance. There is no longer a real distance between Washington and the rest of the country except for the one facilitated by alienating, out-of-touch federal employees. But even that gap is regulated by the media, which in effect can widen or trim it depending on what they decide to report. Take, for example, the shameless infatuation that supposedly impartial media networks had and still have with once candidate Barrack Obama. Tucker Carlson of the Daily Caller recently proved our uncomfortable suspicions of a major journalist ring that specifically conspired to divert attention from Obama's obvious and ruinous Rev. Wright connections. One contributor to the group (this is all documented through emails) said the only foolproof tactic would be to make allegations of racism against then candidate McCain, baseless as they might be.

And so candidate Obama went on to become President Obama, because no one knew anything about him, his birth, his college papers, his home life, or his connections with anti-American terrorists. Because of this, alternative media outlets like Breitbart TV and PJTV (to name the two that I watch the most) came to be. The main stream media has gained a notoriety with Americans for being partisan and dishonest almost as quickly as it once gained credibility for informing Americans about their soldiers overseas. But Americans still have that unquenchable thirst for knowing what their government is up to (sorry Democrats), so enter alternative social media.

Twitter is a phenomenal political tool, and it's fascinating what's happened to the world of information and government since everything was reduced to 140 characters or less. I personally get all my news from twitter at least 10 minutes before anyone else who doesn't use twitter, because there are no second prizes in the world of reporting. Let me illustrate: if a public official needs to air some dirty laundry, it has become almost customary to do so on twitter. Instead of calling a press conference where reporters may ask him those pesky questions he doesn't want to answer, he can simply release to the press in 140 characters exactly what he wants said. No one is going to take the time to call him, because everyone wants to write up a piece about the story first. So most of the time, they'll just work with the quote they get from twitter.

Of course, Obama's is a special case. If he doesn't want to answer the tough questions, he simply doesn't. But let's be honest folks; since when did the main stream media pitch Obama the tough questions?

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