Reply #7: Maybe it's not just Kerry; maybe the media is run by a bunch of lazy fools [View All]

[beachmom]

Look, we're super experts about Kerry. I truly wonder if this isn't the tip of the iceberg of a media plagued with errors by a bunch of elitist journalists too lazy to properly research things. They're on a deadline, they remember yesterday that a General called for Rumsfeld to resign, then they hear Kerry say it, so they figure he's "joining them", without checking it out. I also think that they do favors to other politicians like McCain without any research, giving him the benefit of the doubt. This is how everyone is treated depending on whether they're on the media's "good side". The problem and beauty of blogs is that we're learning that the pundits, TV people, and newspaper people may all be flagrant, egotistical, thin skinned, mediocre incompetents, and we're going to have to do SO much work just to know the truth. Ignorance was bliss but those days are OVER . . .

BTW, I think there ARE great and thorough journalists who do excellent work, but they are no doubt the minority.