on April 19, 2014 in World News
Clinton Admin Feared Internet’s Ability to Democraticize News
Clinton Admin Feared Internet’s Ability to Democraticize News Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be consumed, President Bill Clinton’s White House feared that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press. The infamous 1995 “conspiracy commerce memo” tried to demonize and discredit alternative media outlets on the right to mainstream media organizations and D.C. establishment figures. The memo notes that the “Internet has become one of the major and most dynamic modes of communication” and “can… View Article
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