“Every newsgathering outlet should simultaneously shut down for a week. Maybe people would finally start to get it.”

Yes please. Shut down for a week. See what happens.

What you’re missing is that none of your points matter when the brokers of information are dishonest and corrupt. I’d be better off reading fiction. Case in point: Iraq War coverage from Yon and Totten beat down all the misinformation peddled by the MSM. Another is the outright dishonesty of the media during Katrina, weaving fictional accounts into their stories to provoke outrage. We even have clips of them “working up” their outrage before the news camera, like an actress trying to get into character. What a farce.

And Ed, read Kathleen Parker in Sunday’s WAPO editorial page. Its quite hysterical. See, its not the newspaper’s fault, its us stupid proles who don’t know what we need to know, and “fearmongers” like yourself “stoking ignorance”. Priceless.