Why the Media Continues to Slide Toward Irrelevance: Exhibit A

April 16, 2009, 3:24 pm
Filed under: Online Video

As you know, there’s much hand wringing and naval gazing in journalism circles these days about the fate of the traditional mainstream media.

Thanks to the Internet and cheap new technology that makes it possible for an army of Flip-camera-toting citizens to go around the mainstream media, it’s easier than ever to demonstrate that the traditional media isn’t so much biased as it is completely in contempt of the citizens who don’t agree with their government-is-the-answer-to-every-problem worldview. Exhibit A is the video below by Founding Bloggers, which shows CNN reporter Susan Roesgen literally berate a guy at yesterday’s Tea Party in Chicago, but then shows another citizen confront her immediately afterwards about her choice of interviewee and her unfair coverage.

Especially interesting are Roesgen’s questions, “What group are you with?” and “How did you find out about this?” obviously picking up on the lefty blogosphere’s talking points that this is all just part of some vast right-wing astroturf conspiracy: