The other facet of this is the portrayal of “new media” as inherently biased, as if the MSM isn’t. That portrayal largely originates from the Left, who is the media incumbent. This is the problem that our own EPU was trying to address with his proposal for us all to band together and buy out the NYT or similar. IF the blogverse moves towards more original research and resulting stories, then it must be prepared to answer the inevitable accusations of bias – especially those aimed at the right side of the world.

The problem comes when the media takes their core research (sitting in those council meetings, interviews with politicians, etc.) and transforms it into actual articles. This is where the information is transformed into left-wing media propaganda. It would be nice if the “raw materials” were made available for others to process into a finished product. I liken it to the MSM serving as the ore miner, the smelter, the iron producer, and the manufacturer that takes the iron and turns it into a skillet. What we would like is to receive the raw iron and produce the finished product ourselves, free of the bias that they introduce by dictating the finished product. How that would work is beyond me.