My how the Internet has affected this years presidential election. From YouTube campaigns to blogs controlling stories and at times even setting the tone for major news networks like CNN. Over the last week blogs and the Internet have been five steps ahead of the mainstream media. Could be because as bloggers we are able to access news stories as soon as they happen and check sources much quicker and with less restrictions than someone like MSNBC. Sometimes we get it wrong but often times we are just slightly off course. The truth normally comes out hours later.

Here we don’t tend to report on breaking stories that have a ton of opinion (until we write about them anyway), but those sites often times have more impact on the mainstream media than not.

Take for example of the newly elected VP candidate for the Republican Party, Sarah Palin. She is such a novelty that this will be my second post about her, and I cover entertainment news. While she has certainly provided me with an abundance of entertainment this week; politics is something we generally stay away from here. Unless of course the FCC is up to no good.

Maybe it’s the fact that nobody knew anything about her two weeks ago, or maybe we were all looking for something new to talk about but, she has caught the attention of Internet folks everywhere.

The media has always been last to know everything new about her. In the year that seems to be controlled by bloggers like us here I look forward to seeing what else we can do to change the world.


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