The free press in action

What a surprise!

Citibank has backed down from its policy of denying banking
services to firearms businesses.

The strange and discriminatory policy was first exposed by
WorldNetDaily last month.
It took all of three weeks for the corporate banking giant to re-examine
its policies and determine that they were "inconsistent."

Inconsistent? That's an understatement. The same policy that held
private gun dealers guilty of some kind of offensive behavior exempted
the U.S. military establishment from any such censures.

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But what's really interesting about this latest development is the
way it illustrates, once again, the growing power and influence of the
New Media.

Time and time again, exposes in WorldNetDaily, the biggest of the
independent Internet news operations, have led to direct, speedy and
certain changes in public policy by Big Government and Big Business.

I applaud Citibank for doing the right thing. But clearly it would
not have happened without the enterprising reporting done by Jon
Dougherty right here in this netpaper.

That's cool. Don't you think?

And I will predict that you will be seeing much, much more of this
kind of accountability in the months and years ahead.

Why? Because only now is the exploding traffic of WorldNetDaily
beginning to be appreciated.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. understands its power. When
WorldNetDaily exposed its plan to turn your local banker into a
government spy, the agency was forced by public opinion and a
unanimous U.S. Senate vote to back down.

The White House gets it. When WorldNetDaily exposed Clinton's
Executive Order 13083 to the light of day, a popular uprising ensued --
forcing a hasty retreat by a president who seldom admits mistakes.

Even CNN understands what I'm talking about. After all, it was
WorldNetDaily, again, which first broke the story of how CNN and Time
had perpetuated a fraud on the American people with their "Tailwind"
story alleging that U.S. Special Forces operatives intentionally killed
American soldiers in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war.

They can't ignore the stories any longer. Not when WorldNetDaily
is growing by leaps and bounds as it has in recent months.
That's right. We're talking about 243,000 "unique" readers now. Those
are not "hits." Those are not "impressions." Those are actual
walking-around, live human beings who have been turning to WorldNetDaily
as a primary source for news.

By comparison purposes, the giant corporate New Media sites are
standing still in terms of traffic. Sure, MSNBC, CNN and USA Today have
a big advantage today. But not for long. Not if the expanding traffic of
WorldNetDaily continues in its currently explosive pattern.

The fact is that, over the last several months, there is no faster
growing news site on the Internet. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. WorldNetDaily
is rolling up the new visitors and turning them into loyal readers.
That's what has made WorldNetDaily the most popular site on the
Internet for 37 of the last 46 weeks.

This is the revolution I promised you. It's happening before our
eyes. This is exciting stuff. This website you are reading is leading
the way, but it's not the whole story -- not by a long shot.

The media revolution is just beginning. There will be a thousand
imitators before too long -- when the establishment starts to analyze
the statistics I am citing here for you. The wakeup call is coming.

But, already, the victories over public ignorance, government abuse
and corporate malfeasance are growing in frequency and intensity. It's
becoming almost an everyday event for us in the New Media. Let's face
it, we witnessed only the second president in American history impeached
due primarily to the aggressiveness of an Internet scribe by the name of
Matt Drudge.

It's becoming a rarity when real news actually breaks offline -- in
the old establishment press.

Am I just blowing my own horn? Maybe. But if I don't blow it, I know
no one else will -- certainly not the corporate-government media
complex.