Political power has always revolved around shaping the flow of information.
The only thing that has changed is the medium.
The only thing that has changed is the medium.
The more telling phenom is that the nytimes, an ancient media outlet, put a reporter on the big "Palin's wiki article" scoop rather than, say, Obama's wiki article.
I wonder if any of Obama's campaign volunteers edited his article... I wonder if the nytimes would try to turn that into a scandal. If they haven't turned his black theology/domestic terrorist associations/Chicago corruption scandals into scandals, I'm guessing...no.
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Here is what "shaping the flow of information" looks like:
Sen. Barack Obama is warning TV stations and asking the Justice Department to intervene in an attempt to block the airing of an ad by a non-profit group that links him to an unrepentant domestic terrorist.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73448
...okay? BHO is trying to muscle a private group from publishing information about him that the nytimes (etc, etc) is all too happy to suppress.