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Citizen Journalism Kills Senate Immigration Bill
June 28, 2007 | |
Those days when Senators could hide in a dark room and come out with laws that had never been debated in the light of day are over. The immigration bill is dead. Although some liberals - and even a few Republicans - complain that talk radio was the reason this bill failed, I believe that is only part of the reason.
Citizen journalists - not willing to swallow the media misdirection on pending immigration legislation - dissected and illuminated the issue with their reporting.
This reportage informed the population about the sorry state of this bill. In recent polling, 75 percent of Americans were against the bill that Senators tried to ram through which would have legalized more than 12 million illegal aliens upon its signing.
Michelle Malkin is one of the leading bloggers who took his bill down. She and others like her reported, editorialized and cajoled voters into action. A disparate group of bloggers pulled together an unlikely coalition of Americans - from labor unions to conservatives - that together stopped this train.
Liberals in Congress are taking aim at talk radio and there are rumblings of a new fairness doctrine to govern radio. Whether you are a liberal or conservative blogger, keep a weather eye on the horizon. You’ll be next on the legislative agenda.
