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NY Times: Web sites that dig for news rise as watchdogs

November 18, 1:16 PMOklahoma City Conservative ExaminerChristopher Arps
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While W.A.D. Edmondson blatantly abuses his power persecuting citizen activists and poultry farmers (with a willing media turning a blind eye) - the people of Oklahoma City don't have to be reminded that there is only one daily newspaper, and it is quickly sliding into increasing irrelevance A story in today’s New York Times reminds us why the new media matters and the old media is dying:

Over the last two years, some of this city’s darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics. Investigations ensued. The chiefs of two redevelopment agencies were forced out. One of them faces criminal charges. Yet the main revelations came not from any of San Diego’s television and radio stations or its dominant newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune, but from a handful of young journalists at a nonprofit Web site run out of a converted military base far from downtown’s glass towers — a site that did not exist four years ago.

And for those who still stubbornly cling to the notion that the media is unbiased, check out this article in the Washington Post:

"Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago and his relationship with Antoin 'Tony' Rezko, who was convicted this year of influence-peddling in Chicago. The Post did nothing on Obama's acknowledged drug use as a teenager."

The verdict is indisputable: the media was, and is in the bag for President-elect Obama.

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