Two words.

Dan. Rather.

It’s not the making of the news, it’s the making UP of the news. Friedman and Brokaw can talk about the internet being an open sewer filled with trash but they are part of that. We need to vet what we read or hear? Fine, we need to vet what they say also.

I used to have subscribtions to Time and Newsweek and I read the NYTimes for decades. No more. When I occasionally go to the Newsweek and Time web sites what I see is leftist political polemics passed off as news articles. The Times is generally better in that it mainly confines its opinions to the editorial and op-ed pages. But I can hardly stomach their editorials or op-eds these days. I like the dining section though. I don’t feel the need to vet Mark Bittman’s recipes.

Maybe it’s all whose ox is being gored but these guys don’t seem to see the writing on the wall.