She'll be protected by the media.
I think the media is falling apart right now though.
I used to watch and read CNN all of the time, but just cant anymore. My wife initially criticized me for getting my news elsewhere, but eventually she stop as well. I think her newfound opinion on the CNN, which she held onto for a long time, just proves the point.
I have been listening to a lot of podcast recently, and people are more and more getting their news from these sources. On one such podcast, a credentialed journalist made the point that the mass media is realizing this and trying to correct for it by being over the top, which in turn makes it worse.
I listened to a two hour interview with Peter Theil, a rather interesting person, and he made a similar point. Essentially he said news for the longest time was a monopoly (I would argue an oligopoly), and that is the reason they were so successfully. Monopolies are good so long as you dont become too fat and bureaucratic, becuase then a new technology and company can come and wipe you out. This is essentially what happened to news. They developed a false reality of why they were doing so well, blaming it on good reporting, when in fact it was because they were local monopolies. Then the Internet came along and blew that to hell, and since they became lazy, were lost.
Interesting enough, Theil made another interesting point on government organizations I tend to agree with. He stated that all large organizations, no matter how well they work, will eventually become too bureaucratic to function. In the private sector, the way this is fixed is by a better newer company coming along and putting the older one out of business. In government though, there is no fix to the problem. It just gets more and more inefficient and never gets replaced, and this is the problem with most government agencies today. They worked well when they were created 60+ years ago, but have become ossified by bureaucracy and people just refuse to accept it. They look at the past reality of these institutions instead realizing the current reality and allowing for the whole thing to be nixed and replaced with something else. No politician wants to just fire everyone and start over, which is exactly what happens in the private sector.
