MSM

In Lapdogs, Eric Boehlert confirms what way too many citizens could see clearly from the very beginning. And we didn't need the MSM to tell us about it, as it turns out, because they simply showed it to us by their own obsequious examples, time and again. What were they thinking? Or were they thinking at all, except of course about themselves, clueless in their own exclusive disdain? Either 1) the MSM fell into a sociopathetic stupor after 9/11 (perhaps even before Jason Blair, Stephen Glass, or their corporate suits’ powerful infatuations?), or 2) the MSM are complicit in a sinister oligarchy that will exacerbate global discord for years to come, not to mention domestic unrest. Let's hope it's the first, though that is bad enough because in time it would inevitably lead to the second. And if it’s neither, then we’re back to the original question: What were they thinking? The question itself is disturbing because it evokes a bevy of Valley Girls cavorting in some bushy Valley of the Dolls. Does Mr. Keller know he’s just another pretty face? Embedding themselves, as they call it, seems to be just getting in bed with their sources and coming together, so to speak. All we get from that are leaks and stained sheets.

To be sure, there are discerning journalists working in the MSM, but too often perhaps they are overshadowed by their powers that be, just when the time is ripe. There’s a fine line between what’s politically correct and what’s politically coerced. And now we have, for another example, Richard Cohen et al with much ado about Steven Colbert’s not all that much about anything really except maybe some truth. Tch, tch. Truth can hurt. From Miss Run Amok to this, it’s been downhill much of the way since Bush came into office and co-opted blocks of the MSM in ruins and tried to ruin the country. Is it just fortuitous that the blogosphere expands as the fourth estate seems to be sucking wind? Or is it simply Newton: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."