ABC Rand Paul's toilet tirade

[sailingaway]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/03/rand-pauls-toilet-tirade.html

These are all over the internet, but this one had more of a write up than most. Most just give an admiring or derogatory sentence or two, then post the video.

[JohnEngland]

Hasn't the internet and video-sharing sites like YouTube totally made the old media almost pointless? All ABC really needs to do with this story is shut up and post the video! I noticed that the NYTimes didn't post the video and had only their writeup of the event. Surely it would simply be easier to just post the video, like ABC has? Ahh... but then, of course, the Times' readers will get the full context, all of the discussion, the atmosphere of the room, the humour etc., which would ruin any possible narrative.

[Sola_Fide]

Hasn't the internet and video-sharing sites like YouTube totally made the old media almost pointless? All ABC really needs to do with this story is shut up and post the video! I noticed that the NYTimes didn't post the video and had only their writeup of the event. Surely it would simply be easier to just post the video, like ABC has? Ahh... but then, of course, the Times' readers will get the full context, all of the discussion, the atmosphere of the room, the humour etc., which would ruin any possible narrative.

Oh yeah. They are losing control of the narrative.

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Oh yeah. They are losing control of the narrative.

Not really. If you don't believe it: wait a few months when the narrative here is how the media is screwing Ron Paul.

It's very common to see on FreeRepublic them talking about how irrelevant the "dinosaur media" is in one thread, and then see threads where they're all talking about how the media single-handily got Obama elected. It can't be both.