Reply #26: It's not control. It's just the way they are about everything. [View All]

[Armstead]

People who run Mainstream Media have no brains for anything but numbers. They have no subtly or creativity or journalistic initiative.

If they were Men and Women instead of mice, they'd merely be trrying to present a full and balanced picture all along, successes and failures.

But instead they go from one extreme to anotehr and shift direction at the drop of a har. They follow the feeding frenzy in whatever direction they perceive it's going. And they are scared to death of criticism.

So they went in the direction of "The War in Iraq is falling apart" for a while. Now because they got criticized for that, they are shifting to "The War in Iraq is succeeding." Next week, if they perceive that the zeitgeist is shifting again, it'll be back to "The War is falling apart." Or "Iraq is Irrelevant.