If you look up Everything I Know Is Wrong on Google you will see that the subtitle for my blog is, "Jumping into the pool with Demosthenes and Locke." This is because of a book I read a long time ago titled Ender's Game. I have read it several times and it has lead me to other books by the same author, Orson Scott Card. I won't go into the plot of the book but two of the main characters, Demosthenes and Locke, were bloggers. They weren't called bloggers, blogs didn't yet exist, but that's what they were doing none the less. I waited and watched for quite a while for a phenomenon like they participated in to arrive on the web. In December of 2003 I discovered, while listening to Hugh Hewitt's show, that it had begun without me. I was a little embarrassed about missing the signs because I'm in the internet field (but I got over it). I started my blog right away.
I'm not totally sure what the point of this post is supposed to be. I think maybe it's that I was really pleased to find that Orson Scott Card is not only one of my favorite authors but is also a conservative. A post on Perspective lead me to this excellent article by Mr. Card on Media Bias.
Meridian MagazineIt's really an excellent article, take a look.
When Fox News Channel was founded by Rupert Murdoch, the consensus was that no startup all-news cable channel could possibly compete with CNN.And if any startup had a chance, it was MSNBC, which had the combined clout of NBC's esteemed news division and Microsoft, which in those days was believed to own the future.
Now, about a decade later, Fox News Channel has left both CNN and MSNBC in the dust.
There's no guarantee that this is permanent, of course.
But it certainly has the Left in a panic. They hated it that American conservatism had any voice at all, back when it was confined to a few radio talk shows -- remember how everybody wanted to blame Rush Limbaugh and other conservative talk-radio hosts for the Oklahoma City bombing?Now, though, to have Fox News Channel be the source for the largest portion of America's TV news junkies just sticks in their craw. How could such a thing happen?
