Hitting the MSM Where It Hurts

General Motors stunned the MSM with an announcement it was withdrawing advertising from the L.A. Times:

GM's move came a day after the L.A. Times published a column by its Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic, Dan Neil, about the automaker's brand strategy.

The column's headline called the Pontiac G6 "a sales flop." It also said the automaker should "dump" Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and "let the impeachment proceedings begin."

GM spokeswoman Ryndee Carney said the move to withdraw advertising was not spurred by any specific story but by "concerns over accuracy and misrepresentations with the paper's editorial coverage over a period of some time."

Finally, a crack in the wall of bias.

I predict that the circulation scandals the MSM is currently sitting on in the newspaper world will explode into a major issue over the next few months as advertisers realize they've been defrauded and demand much lower rates. As this happens, the increased pressure on profitability, combined with the exodus from the MSM following their awful and transparent bias during the Iraq War and the last election campaign, will lead to major restructuring and the acceleration of conservative media into the mainstream.

Companies would be smart to start taking advantage of the major blogs---they offer the opportunity for a much more targeted marketing campaign. Also, if companies are tired of MSM distortions, why not establish blogs themselves instead of talking to the Hair Helmet Hamas and waiting to see what comes out the end of their anti-business, anti-American media machine?