So I’m having dinner with Randy Phillips and he says he never lies. Because you can Google the truth in an instant.

But too many reporters don’t Google, or believe everything they see there.

You’ve got to watch this RayWJ takedown of the "Wall Street Journal" article about him:

FIGHTING THE ELEPHANT – Ray William Johnson Video

Start at: 2:29 and be sure to stay until he points out that more people watch his videos than subscribe to the "Wall Street Journal" at: 5:40.

The press. Reporters e-mail me seemingly every day wanting to interview me about entertainment topics, usually I say no, but when I agree I’m stunned that they’re clueless, they’re still operating in the pre-Internet era, asking "who, what, why, how and when", trying to get the story when there’s someone online living the story, and if anybody cares, they go there first, to this website.

In other words, I reach my audience better than the "New York Times". Never mind the "Wall Street Journal" and the regional newspapers. How do I know? Because people tell me. A story is in the "New York Post" and executives get not a single e-mail about it, I put my spin on it and suddenly their inboxes are filled up, they’re put on the defensive.

And the point of my tale is not to say what a big swinging dick I am, but to illustrate how the media landscape has changed. That the so-called "authorities" often aren’t.

Now I don’t believe in responding to the press, it’s not worth it, even though they make mistakes ad infinitum. But RayWJ points out reporting that’s so shoddy, it makes you wonder if the "Wall Street Journal" gets anything right. As my dearly departed friend Tony Wilson once told me, he got the football scores in Spain wrong on a telecast and although he didn’t get fired, his boss told him if we can’t get the football scores right, how are they supposed to trust us on the big issues?

Big media has got its head so far up its ass heading towards a cliff that all one can say about their declining revenues is SAYONARA! I don’t see why we should save your jobs.

In every field there’s a self-styled expert testifying on the Web. The newspaper is where you go last, if at all. Ask sports fans. As for television, where was it written that good-looking people make the best reporters? But the dirty little secret is they barely report at all, they just regurgitate what the newspapers say.

And you might say the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

I’d say the Internet revolution is finally giving the public a voice. And by time we’re through all those people in power won’t be.

Good riddance.