Will the Obama political implosion...

hasten the end of the traditional media?

Yes.

President Barack Obama's unfavorable rating are increasing while his favorable ratings are remaining steady, if not actually declining slightly. While this polling trend is normal for new presidents once they are in office, it is remarkable for the current president because he was to be a transformational president that would break with all previous norms for the previous presidents. His popularity was to never decline.

Some of his supporters among the press were claiming that he was the smartest person to have ever been elected to the office while others predicted that he would create such a groundswell of adulation among the peoples of the world that he would become the leader of the world by sheer force of his personality.

High expectations were being sold to the American voters who were looking for ... something ... but were unable to exactly define that something - just different.

Now that he is in office, the miracles have not occurred and hope of their ever happening is now gone. The electorate is now getting an uneasy feeling that perhaps they had been deceived - again. Once loyal supporters who had written the most glowing articles about "The One" are now revising their opinions of him - in writing.

The fanatical supporters are still loyal. And they will remain loyal. They will step up their attacks of anyone who dares to criticize "The One" in an attempt to drown out the heretics and apostates. But eventually, one by one, they will begin to tone down their defense of him until they will become mute. Some will come to the conclusion that they Democratic party failed them by placing Obama at the top of the ticket. Some will have their epiphany and turn on the party and will find solace in the words of Ronald Reagan, "I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me."

The voters will be very upset, believing that they had been betrayed by the public watchdogs: the media.

Members of the media will be upset, believing that they had been deceived by the Obama campaign, the Democratic Party, and by the Republicans. Disappointment by the realization of their own gullibility, they will attempt to redeem themselves by claiming they had doubts about him for some time. They will even give examples of incidents they found disturbing but had not reported previously.

The public, when confronted with all of the bitter recollections of a now disillusioned press, will have even less faith in the press' so called objectivity. Independents, who are the last hope of the newspapers for subscribers, will join the Republicans in believing that the press is hopelessly biased, will be more skeptical of political and economic coverage to the point where they will stop subscribing to their local newspapers.