Online News Consumers Become Their Own Editors

By Anick Jesdanun - Published: Jul 24, 2005 - The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - J.D. Lasica used to visit 20 to 30 Web sites for his daily fix of news. Now, he's down to three - yet he consumes more news online than ever.

Lasica is among a growing breed of information consumers who use the latest Internet technologies to completely bypass the home pages of news sites and jump directly to articles that interest them.

Welcome to the world of Internet News. It is a world driven by bloggers, that group of technically savy news hounds that have revolutionized news dessimination here in America and around the world. The most recent poll says that 37% of Americans now get their news primarily from the Internet. This number is growing rapidly.

We are only a short time away from a world where the majority of people will avoid the MSM. What is MSM? That is the blogger term for Main Stream Media, the leftist dominted world of the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS and NBC, etc.

This new Internet world of news is being supported by more and more of the intelligent computer processes that make finding out what is happening in the world easier. I have been using MyWay.com for some time (the link is on the right column of this web site). However the article linked above made me aware of another great site, topix.net, that I had not seen before. One more example of how quickly the Internet keeps improving.

Reading newspapers is rapidly dying, since the news that you get there is filled with bias and lies. (See stories about Dan Rather's attempt to fix an election) The end result is that newspaper revenues are plunging nationwide. If you get your news primarily from newspapers, you cannot honestly argue that you really care about the truth since their bias has been so well proved. The number of people watching "network" news is also plunging. Ratings are being followed by advertisers who are also abandoning these entities. Fox News is an exception, since it is still the rare non left wing site.

As the movement to the Internet continues though, there are even some who wonder, what is going to happen to Fox News (and CNN)? They still have a bias. Even worse, they both dispense news in a sound bite format that wastes a lot of time and provide little real information. If you want the truth, a broad spectrum of input from both left and right sources will allow you to get there sooner and with less time invested. That makes the Internet the best choice if you want to know the truth.

Since most people really do want the truth, the Internet is growing rapidly. Welcome to the 21st century.