09/09/09 Marco Island, Florida
A single unpaid blogger, not the mainstream media, was responsible for Van Jones’ resignation. A blogger who goes by the name of Gateway Pundit discovered that Jones had signed a petition that, in essence, accused the Bush administration of either perpetrating or willingly failing to prevent the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It was the final straw.
During the long noisy buildup to Van Jones’ involuntary resignation, not one word about the controversy appeared in the paper pages of The New York Times and many other MSM outlets. Only now are those who depend on these old media outlets even hearing Jones’ name; and it is often in stories that infer that he was somehow smeared.
It is a remarkable state of affairs when important news and objective fact are being discovered and reported by a lone individual using nothing but his computer and an Internet connection. Meanwhile, old media are losing money and firing reporters daily.
This is the power of technology. We will continue to see this sort of disruption across the board, but this specific lesson concerns old media. Few of these old media institutions are capable of adapting…
When we finally emerge from this government-created fiasco, it will be a far better and more profitable world. As old institutions crumble, new ones will be born, and we’ll invest in the best of them.
Patrick Cox
Patrick Cox brings two decades of experience in software, public policy, medical economics and biotechnology to the Agora Financial table. He is editor of the Breakthrough Technology Alert and Technology Profits Confidential, as well as a contributor to the Penny Sleuth. Cox, who spent his early childhood on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, studied at Boise State University and has written for USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Reason Magazine. Cox has also been featured in The Baltimore Sun and CNBC Business Magazine.
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i hope he signed the petition in conviction….the bush administration used military grade nanothermite to destroy the wtc in a controlled demolition of all 3 buildings….the government has lied shamelessly about the event just as crooks do….
I second Tony Bonn’s position. We need solid answers to solid questions being based upon solid observation, basic laws of physics, and known chemical properties. Why would one not suspect foul play when the answers to these questions are continually withheld. Why is the presence of Van Jones name on this petition such a threat. As an American citizen as deserving of real answers as the rest of us American citizens that petition is exactly where his signature belongs and every other signature on it. Should you find me a copy of that petition you may very well find my name added to it.
Well, Pat, you stick with it.
C’mon, you can say it, “The newspapers are dead.” And the once great chains will finally, bessedly disappear, or die off to their sustainable level.
In their place will come new and synergistic organizations of bloggers, transmogrified to ‘The Local House Organ’.
they pretend to tell us the news we pretend to read it or watch it.
interesting isn’t it how much like the old soviet union it is becoming
it’s been that way since the cia controlled newsfakers told us that a lone gunman killed jfk….
I guess you dont know who Glenn Beck is huh?
I heard much worse things about Van Jones than the stupid petition a long time ago on both Glenn Becks TV and radio shows….Mr Beck has been all over Van Jones and has contributed most to exposing him.
You should have done your homework before you tried to frame your own little view of this….makes you look stupid and unprofessional.
dear silvercrusader, please go look in the nearest mirror, there you will truly see “stupid and unprofessional”
roninscz said
dear silvercrusader, please go look in the nearest mirror, there you will truly see “stupid and unprofessional”
I see you didn’t respond to my point ronin scheeze….you can only resort to an ad hominem attack…which makes you a vapid zero…. Argue to my points, then if you feel it’s justified, criticize.
Otherwise….shut up and stop wasting space.
roninscz.
You are like most others on the political left. You can’t debate. Your best weapon is to smear and slander people. Disagree with someone then fine, but be able to back it up. Or at least just say you disagree and move on. To bring yourself to call someone stupid just reflects poorly upon yourself.
I see the 9-11 “Truther” nutjobs read The Daily Reckoning.
Now if only we could get ACORN to step down…