He Didn’t Just Lie About Arizona: Calderon Fibbed About Assault Weapons, Too
To Michael: No, the so called MSM’s greatest sin is that it is no longer a collection of independent journalistic sources diligent in fact checking, exposing government and corporate corruption and misbehavior, and striving in general in keeping a neutral tone in presenting the facts fairly and in context: it’s now mostly the corporate media with an eye on profitability and in not upsetting too much its corporate parents. The result is more and more infotainment, an increasing low density of gathered facts, less checking of those facts, more timidity and impotency in going after powerful politicians and corporations, and an overall ever increasing diffusion of “news” in general.
Not long ago I watched the local TV news for the first time with some visiting family members and it was genuinely laughable about how little actual news was covered in a half hour. How much time can anyone afford in just getting well-informed?
I personally have certain milestones for when the state of the US news media took major steps downward, basically stories that got widely circulated and commented upon, but with little if any actual journalistic investigation: the first was Mike Barnicle’s alleged plagiarism of George Carlin (nope, didn’t happen); the second was the media “coverage” of the invasion of Iraq (there were plenty of red flags for there being deceit and lies afoot); and the Killian memos (nobody thought to even look up other early 70′s military memos for comparison, never mind what was then common office tech and proper military formats, or even really rummage through the official DoD records.)
Things since have only gotten worse, if not so stepwise.
