Don Surber says New Media has clout that Old Media never did. He bases that on the progress made recently on eliminating porked-up earmarks in Congress:
Why do I credit the Internet? Because I have been writing editorials against this for 20 years as have most newspaper editorial writers. Left or right, we oppose throwing good money after bad.
Yet we have gone nowhere.
Now between the Sunlight Foundation and Citizens Against Government Waste, which also has slogged this for 20 years, some progress is being made.