The heroine of the US Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin, is as much a creature of twittering and the vast new blogosphere as she is of television and radio – perhaps more so. Indeed, the shift of public debate from the mainstream press to the Internet has helped to break down the authority of traditional elites: newspaper editors, political columnists, academics, politicians.
美国绿党运功的的女先锋佩林就是这样一个典型，她利用Twitter博客作为自己的广播电台来炒作自己。实际上，公众讨论正从主流报纸向互联网转移，这打破了传统精英阶层的权威：报纸主编，政治专栏作家，学者和政界人物。在互联网上，任何人都可以自由发声。这固然很民主，但也会使得民众很难区分真实和谎言，国家政治正常讨论和别有用心的煽动。