Political reporters now superfluous--EU Parliament member

The Telegraph UK, 3/26/09, by Daniel Hannan, Europeon Parliament member

• "The internet has changed politics - changed it utterly and forever. Twenty-four hours ago, I made a three-minute speech in the European Parliament, aimed at Gordon Brown.

I tipped off the BBC and some of the newspaper correspondents but, unsurprisingly, they ignored me: I am, after all, simply a backbench MEP. (snip)

• How did it happen, in the absence of any media coverage?

• The answer is that political reporters no longer get to decide what's news."

"My Speech to Gordon Brown goes Viral" post from Lucianne.com