If only this were true! But while the internet reaches millions, the MSM can still reach billions. The monopoly hasn’t been broken, but it has been shaken up enough for our would-be overlords to notice, and they’re rapidly rallying their forces to suppress the free flow of information, as usual, “for the common good.”

The vast amount of information on the internet is both its strength and its weakness; anyone can find the truth with enough digging, but it’s much easier to find only what information fits one’s preconceptions, and care nothing whether it’s true or not. This aspect of human nature is where the media’s power comes from, and the loss of their power to suppress information is likely to last only until they find a way to channel it into a fear of the internet itself.

Then the media will ask us to give up our freedoms, and we will be too scared of the “hackers on steroids” to refuse.

Israel and the Bush Administratiion are alike in this. They believe the justice of their causes will show itself and people will support them for that reason. It doesn’t work that way. The most just cause in the world (and what could be more just than Jews defending themselves against genocide?) will fail to the most evil cause if the latter can make itself out to be more just and more successful to observers. It may be all lies, but if they are plausible and unrefuted lies they will win the information battle.

Remember, there’s a sucker born every minute. That’s how Chavez got into office in Venezuela, that’s how Ortega got elected in Nicaragua recently, that’s how Arafat became a “stateman”, and many other examples of the scum rising to the top. Tha Islamists, the Arabs, the Leftists are counting on snowing the suckers; they are political P. T. Barnums.

The media lets out only what they want to let out. They’ve gone all in against Israel, and they’re doing everything in their power to see it destroyed, in the hope they will be forgiven for allowing the “mistake” of Israel’s existence to take place.

Of course, they know they will also have to undo the “mistake” of the US’s, Australia’s, Canada’s, and maybe even Britain’s existences too, but that’s a price they’re willing to make everyone else pay.