Reply #2: Is it really careerism that keeps "reporters" in line? Or is the [View All]

[tsuki]

loss of multimillion dollar contracts? We have been warned since the sixties about the emergence of a beltway media. A media based, not forged in iron by a hard ass editor who questioned everything from sources to commas, but rather in a teased, blown dryed, manicured orator who could read at a sixth grade level.

Twenty-five million dollars for Hannity?

Today, I heard on CNN a report in which legislators were calling for the regulation of "blogs." According to the report, blogs were a problem in the political process. Anyone could start a blog, be a reporter and influence an election.

Start a blog and be a reporter? Influence an election? How?

Is it because "reporter" just means "who can shout the loudest?" I read, therefore, I am.

If anyone wants to control the blogs, it is those that pose as "reporters" today. No facts, all fluff, all spin from the canned corporate news clips to the multimillion dollar contracts.