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You continue to spew this line of BS that "old media" is still the powerful media elite that controls much of what people think about politics and the state of the country. And you continue to ignore the power and place of the "new media" in setting public opinion.
The new media is not just TV. It is a combination of TV, radio, print, multimedia, education and social engineering that sets a new standard for the established media to follow.
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I actually agree with the sentiment in this post, that the way people get their information has changed over the last 2 decades or so. I started wondering just how much, and stumbled across this chart while looking for an answer. This was specifically about the recent campaign, but i have to believe it's representative of how people get info on everything else as well.
Clearly, the vast majority of Americans still get most of their information from the network/cable / local news TV programs.
I thought the number would be much lower in this area. The internet was much lower than i thought it would be as well.
Though this has nothing to do with showing media bias, it does tend to point to a couple things.
The "old" media is still alive and kicking....and very much influential on the general public.
Also that "talk radio" is not nearly as big a factor as some believe. As has been mentioned on this site many times, the people that tune in to the Limbaugh/Franken type radio shows, are ones that already have a decided slant towards that particular persons beliefs already. So their is really VERY little influence by these types of media sources on what is going on in the world.