If you don’t follow the press, you are uninformed, goes the old saw; if you do follow the press, you are misinformed.

Nowadays you can actually be, you know, informed if you carefully follow the alternative press and social media. 

It’s a major reason why the organized left, the Democrats and the traditional media — but I repeat myself — have less traction today than they used to.

My 2006 book “An Army of Davids” explored how citizen journalists revolutionized reporting on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and frustrated Dan Rather’s attempt to steal the 2004 election with forged records about George W. Bush and the Texas National Guard.

But in the years that followed, independent reporters (not accidentally) faced major barriers.

The wide-open “blogosphere” gave way to corporate “social media,” where stories that interfered with the preferred narrative of the left, the Democrats and the traditional media — once again, I repeat myself — were muted or downright banned.