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To: Sawdusty who wrote (19845)	6/2/2005 6:43:54 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361609

We on this thread are but a barometer of the public. The net is taking over our media world. We can't see it as well as we will a decade from now. We take it for granted that we can say words and they appear to the world about 2 seconds after we post them. Our glass is getting to half full. We won't fill that glass by ourselves. It's the synergy of our concerns that add up to more exposure of what is really real. We don't have to wait for the newspaper anymore eh? Nice having you here Sarge. Sioux

To: Sawdusty who wrote (19845)	6/2/2005 8:06:49 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361609

Woodward and Bernstein had absolutely NO rep prior to Watergate. What made their story was they had an editor, Ben Bradlee, who trusted and believed in them enough to let them dig out the story. Ben Bradlee had an owner with the stones to stand up to the pressure from the Nixonites and let the story develop. I don't know that we've got that anywhere in the mainline media today. We've had a dozen smoking guns in this administration, but the only people really investigating are bloggers with no resources and tiny audiences.