Yesterday I was over at another Pajamas Media site, and the subject under discussion included the [to me] fantasy notion that the press would someday turn on Buraq Hussein Obama & Co. as their actions became unpopular. If I may quote what I said then:
Our media and political [both parties] elites have avoided all of the trauma of the economic collapse. They intend to continue to do so. The politicians, especially Democrats, would be more than willing to finally shred the Constitution to hold on to power.
I disagree with Ms. Rubin about the media possibly turning on the Democrats. The only way that their elites can avoid economic collapse is if they accept open government subsidies and formalize the employer-employee relationship with the government. That will not happen if the Democrats lose absolute power. They have lost their credibility happily. They will not lose their wealth or their claim to power.
What Rather is doing is the first visit to the Personnel Department to pick up the application papers for the MSM to be hired by what he hopes will become the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda.
#14 Mongoose
Your second paragraph is a masterpiece of accurate description, that applies not only to the willingly kept Media, but also to the entire Democratic party and its allies to the Left. Ditto for your description in #17 of what they prioritize.
#18 Buddy Larson
Perhaps it could from now on be considered a goal of the resistance to the regime to restore “accountability” to the media? *evil grin*
#20 Mark_B
If we have that “one sensor” that determines and defines “truth”; it will be owned by the regime and accountability will be defined as congruence with the “one sensor”‘s view. [*] It is simple, but it consistently puts out totally false results. There is a less than ideal signal to noise ratio with 10,000 sensors, but accurate data will be out there to be found and used. [*- I cannot help thinking of Tolkien in pondering Wretchard's sensor formulation: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the Darkness bind them."]
Subotai Bahadur
