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Andrew Breitbart gives up an interview with...Michael Savage. Ugggh. But, ignore that, and listen to Andrew Breitbart. h/t Hot Air

Alinsky's Rules for Radicals is finally, effectively, being used against the Left.

It's about time.

OH! This, from the New York Times...

“Work formerly done by reporters and producers is now routinely performed by political operatives and amateur ideologues of one stripe or another, whose goal is not to educate the public but to win. This is a trend not likely to change.”

So writes a very worried Mark Bowden (he of “Blackhawk Down”) in the latest issue of The Atlantic. And there’s more:

The Internet is now replacing Everyman with every man. Anyone with a keyboard or cell phone can report, analyze, and pull a chair up to the national debate. If freedom of the press belongs to those who own one, today that is everyone. The city with one eye (glass or no) has been replaced by the city with a million eyes. This is wonderful on many levels, and is why the tyrants of the world are struggling, with only partial success, to control the new medium. But while the Internet may be the ultimate democratic tool, it is also demolishing the business model that long sustained news­papers and TV’s network-news organizations.

This is interesting. The NYT Weekend Opinionator posts, using the headline “Acorn Falls, the Web Rises“, with the front page sub-title “A novice film maker embarrasses the Main Stream Media.”

So, I click over and read the piece, which is pretty good, not as apologetic for Acorn as you’d think, coming from the NYT. Back to the front page, the sub-title is changed to read “Did a novice filmmaker embarrass the mainstream media? “, taking away the definitive.

Bastards!

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