Internet and cable TV shake Democracy

Very rarely gives us the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The people who founded our Republic participated in a revolution that has touched all corners of the earth for over 200 years. Our grandparents and parents participated in a revolution during World War II World, where we managed to rid the world of Adolf Hitler's death and its technology was sweeping civilization.

Eventually, we all participated a quiet revolution when communism fell to his knees A little over a decade, and went with a whimper. It need not be. Millions could die in Eastern Europe and the USSR itself. Very quiet dictatorship, totalitarian and brutal intended to enslave the world has gone silent, and most notably, they all become capitalists. What a wild world we live in

I submit that we are on the verge of a new American Revolution, perhaps as powerful as the birth of our democracy in the 1700s. What happens is that the power in this country is being redistributed the very people who are voters. We were born as a republic, remember the words "and of the Republic who represents the Pledge of Allegiance. We are becoming a democracy based on the dispersion of the information generated by Internet and cable television as a tool in everyone's house.

Certainly there is tremendous noise on the Internet, which means that there is a wealth of information unnecessary, but in the universe there are many jewels, and who are on the internet too. Consider what happened in just a few years? Not so long ago that the main liberal media bias were 100%. Clearly, an objective look at ABC, NBC and CBS prove liberal orientation. From its origins to his subjects of history, the media have always played to the left of center. Richard Nixon would never resign if the Senate or the House was Republican and the media has been neutral.

Today, with Internet and cable television, the tide has clearly stabilized, and can be changed from the other side. Dan Rather of the CBS broadcast Reporting a disparaging George W. Bush and National Guard who have been right, but knew he could not prove it. In an attempt to influence the election, two weeks before the election, released anyway. The Internet blows up his 40 year career and forced her resignation. The bloggers were relentless in attack and instead led to the disgrace behind the scenes to date has never revealed the story of the shooting of Dan Rather. Without the Internet and cable television, Dan Rather still represent a liberal bias on television in prime time every night.

Traditional media and journalism can not understand what has happened to Internet and cable revolution, we are participating in. When Republican Congressman Foley committed political suicide by writing sexually inappropriate e-mails to pages of young people you and I was able to go online and read e-mails to ourselves to determine the guilt of innocence of this man. We do not need someone with Ageng display policy for us, and not the Revolution.

We are able to filter stories for ourselves. It is not necessary that I have to hear Dan Rather say what is good or bad. I can listen more than read the New York Times and go to Internet and cable television for additional information that refuse to reveal to me.

Then you'll be amazed. A month before the invasion of Iraq was a former weapons inspector giving a television interview in which he spoke in an explosive. He was ranting: "No weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and we are not going to find." I thought it was crazy, but I also told me that was the former weapons inspector was there. There is a patient recently discharged from the asylum.

Now the reality is that he was right, and the President was wrong, the CIA was wrong, the army was wrong. How is this right Guy, and I knew I was right, and a machine of 300 billion dollars a year the war could not wrong? I never seen or heard of this person again. Has been ignored, so it is maintenance, articles or books? After all, he was right, and we've all been wrong.

The Internet is leveling the playing field. If you want to know why John Kerry lost the national elections turning to the Internet. The type was defined by the Internet before they can define. I know that Governor Pataki was a joke when he said that "John Kerry himself every morning to Google to see where they stand on issues, but it was not far wrong in retrospect.

If I could have an answer to prayer in politics, and I think that will be answered: "What would. I would see all the candidates, Liberal or Conservative collect 100% of its financial support Internet and be free of these special interests and lobbyists that are destroying the democratic foundations of our country. I do not want pharmaceutical companies to impose drug prices for Medicare for the elderly. I do not want to dictate education teacher lobbies in this country.

Did you know that since kindergarten to the last year, our education system is class 16 in the world? At university level, we are at number one and no one even close. Why you ask? Because college is private and the public system is not. Even at university level, when you have public universities like the University California or New York State University system, are world class, because they have to compete with a private system. Our public education system does not compete, so it is permitted to remain weak in the first 15 systems around the world.

It is time for the revolution to continue. In 2012, the political system does not recognize in the United States that the dispersion of the unfiltered information equipment the people by the power of Internet. We should all congratulate and thank God for that. How very nice that we will be alive to see.

Goodbye and good luck

Richard Stoyeck
November 3, 2006

About the Author

Richard Stoyeck’s background includes being a limited partner at Bear Stearns, Senior VP at Lehman Brothers, Kuhn Loeb, Arthur Andersen, and KPMG. Educated at Pace University, NYU, and Harvard University, today he runs Rockefeller Capital Partners and StocksAtBottom.com Value Investing at StocksAtBottom.com

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