OK.... is it me or is there a faint shade of sanity

[complain jane]

trickling into the news media this week? Maybe it's because journalists are trying to distance themselves from the Armstrong Williams paid-shill-for-the-WH debacle. Or maybe it's something else. What?

There were at least two great Washington Post articles this week. One was on Bush's fabricating crises and the other was called Hollow Accountability and was excellent. Then MSNBC ran an article about PNAC and how the entire Iraq war was planned. There were a few other things too.

Am I alone in this?

[Indiana_Dem]

1. I just tuned in tonight to TV for the first time in awhile...

it seemed to me like they were pretty tough in asking questions sometimes. It just makes me wonder, though, if their ratings are going down because people are tired of hearing the propoganda and right-wing slant. I know I tuned out after the elections. And maybe the Repugs think they've won it all now and don't have to worry, so they've tuned out, too. Might just be a ratings issue like always, they want to capture our attention and then they switch it on us.

[complain jane]

3. yeah I know, possible.

whatever this is could swing back into upside down Bushland without notice.

But the media just makes me sick. All this evidence of Bushco's wrongdoing and where were they? I've lost all respect for the media, between the WH ass-kissing and the payoffs (you just know Armstrong's not an isolated incident).

It's disgusting. I hope corporate media implodes, they deserve it.

[Indiana_Dem]

4. I have no respect for mainstream media anymore either.

I watch it sometimes but with no respect or credence to what is being said. They were questioning the war which made me perk up a little but then I started hearing Scarborough talk about how Indonesia should be grateful to us blah blah blah. He sound like the ultimate jerk that he is.

Even c-span hasn't been running very interesting things lately.

Then I am upset that pbs, Discovery, TLC, etc., doesn't run anything interesting or REALLY educational as much. Heck I used to stay up late everynight and watch something interesting on Discovery or TLC but not anymore. I think the media wants us all to dumb down even more or something. About the only things I watch consistently anymore are c-span, History and Weather channel. That's about it.

Until they start reporting the truth in an unbiased, fair sort of way, I don't give it any credibility. The poor honest souls who go on those news entertainment shows just ask for lack of respect. Why they do it, I don't know.

Gotta go to bed. Night night!

on edit: I DID watch quite a bit on the tsunami and all the weather recently, however. I forgot about that.

[punpirate]

2. Well, MSNBC...

... is only about about 2-1/2 years late on that story. :shrug:

The Post is probably trying to send a warning to Bush to slow down, that he might be alienating some people by pushing a radical second-term agenda too hard and too fast. I doubt that they're suddenly out to expose him for what he is--they've had four solid years of hard evidence on that score, and they've generally treated him with kid gloves, where they should have been calling for his impeachment. :mad: