When do you think the news networks will realize that the news business

[Democrat 4 Ever]

as they know it has changed forever? I keep watching the different channels and they are still quoting the different polls, asking the same questions from four years ago, expecting to gleam some type of information for the business as usual mode they are so ingrained to using.

This election is different. Very different. I would have thought the "Internets" would have convinced them of that after the first debate. They had instant and total feedback on the performance of both candidates and yet they are still relying on the old standard polling models. This discounts and completely ignores the activism that is reaching out and changing this election without them apparently even being aware of the shift. I am not talking about the online polls that are easily tilted to favor one candidate over the other. How are they discounting the immediate dissemination of information and the immediate response to every news story, rumor, fact-checking, etc.? And the speed in which it is done? In many instances in this election the citizens of the Internet are the people doing talking heads' job for them. The news networks have played catch-up the entire election cycle to the people online. Do they not see that?

In 1948 the pollmeisters learned the hard way they were asking the wrong people, the wrong questions, at the wrong times. Their polls were so far off it has become legendary. Adjustments were made for the change of times. We are now, again, at a major revamping and shift of how people are getting their information, passing that information along, forming their opinions and many are completely disregarding the media input into the process. I think this is what explains the continued skewing of poll figures - I cannot believe the election is any thing as close as the pundits are predicting.

Americans are sick and tired of the spin put on most news reports and have sought a different venue for their information. The minute they sold their souls to corporate America was when they signed their own death certificate. Wonder when it will hit the big boys they are inconsequential to millions and millions of voters? They are going the way of the buggy whip and the typewriter.

[NMDemDist2]

1. Fineman mentioned the same thing on Tweety's show n/t

[barbaraann]

2. Yup. The whores have been replaced by bloggers and posters.

I would guess that free love and free punditry and both far better than the paid sort.