:
Su Feb 20 -

US PRESS "COUPS" -

The UK Guardian Observer
puts in its own $.02:

*One question is dominating US newsrooms and television studios: ignored, scandalised and now corrupted, just what is America's mainstream media for anymore?...

The internet has become a sort of Fifth Estate as the Fourth Estate of the mainstream media has slid toward irrelevance...

Unlike Britain, where political blogs are barely part of the debate, internet sites in America are seen as a vital political tool...

Some commentators see the emergence of blogging as a media force as a liberating phenomenon...*

+ Excerpted and redacted from:
:: The mole, the US media and ::
-- By Paul Harris --

...