5,000 canceled subscriptions?

“They went to print thinking Palin was dead in the water, and their mistake was thinking everyone who reads Us is a Democrat, when they’re not.”

Looks like Oprah’s a slow learner, too.

Original link
(h/t to Peter)

In terms of this year’s conventions, the preliminary rating for NBC’s coverage last night is higher than any other night of the convention on the broadcast networks, including Sen. Obama’s nomination acceptance speech on Aug. 28.

Rush, (on Wednesday before the speech);

I think once this gets going, and as I said yesterday once this hits full stride, the Barack Obama campaign’s going to realize what a loser choice it made in putting Joe Biden on the ticket, mark my words. There’s going to be a huge reversal of this by the time this all shakes out. But why are they trying to force her off the ticket? If she’s this big a trailer trash, and if she’s so inexperienced, why not leave her there? She should be easy to beat, right? Well, that’s the key. They’re scared to death of her. They are frightened like they haven’t been frightened in a long time. They thought they had succeeded in nullifying and eliminating the conservative wing of the Republican Party. They thought that they had succeeded in creating an impression among Americans at large that conservatism was in disfavor, that it was in a funk, that it was a minority, and here comes Palin, Sarah Palin just in her being, in her essence, simply destroys every myth and every lie that the liberals have told us that they want in women.

Bingo.
Now we know what had them so frightened. Tied.

Jonathan Kay is embarrassed by an industry that probably doesn’t deserve him;

A few weeks ago, I wrote a column arguing that readers will miss the mainstream media when we’re gone. Oh sure, bloggers have a lot of spicy opinions. But when it comes to investigating important stories, they don’t hold a candle to big, deep-pocketed, old-fashioned newspaper writers and broadcast media outlets.
Imagine my embarrassment, then, when it turned out this week that the flagship newscast on the biggest, deep-pocketedest, old-fashionedest Canadian media outlet of them all — the taxpayer-funded CBC–got suckered into reporting a story that the blogosphere chewed up, debunked and spit out two days earlier.

Except that there’s nothing remarkable about this. Debunking mainstream media agenda-driven “journalism” has the bread and butter of the political blogosphere for years. Newsbusters, Media Mythbusters, the thousands of eyes at LGF, the specialists at Icecap and Anthony Watts countering weather hysteria and junk science – open source critical analysis is out there for the taking, it’s free, and yet the mainstream media continues to be deaf, dumb, and blind.
I’ve said it before – this isn’t an extinction. It’s suicide.
News consumers are no longer willing to be passive recipients of filtered, uninformed, agenda-driven journalism. They’re not just showing the imposters up for what they are, they’re responding – in subscription cancellations, channel changing, and plain old talk back;

Dear (name withheld):
I write to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail, which I have shared with Mark
Harrison, acting Executive Producer of The National, along with the request that
your concerns be addressed.
Yours truly,
Vince Carlin
CBC Ombudsman

We’ll be following this one.