A Little Bit Of Outrage For Your Afternoon

[filkertom]

Two articles you might want to read, both at The Smirking Chimp: Robert Parry's report on the press' screwing over of Al Gore, and Cindy Sheehan's anger at the mercenary army in Iraq... the one we pay for. (For further reading on this rather important subject -- effectively an unreported 100,000 extra Coalition soldiers -- read some of these articles by Jeremy Scahill, author of the new book Blackwater.)

Comments

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

I've believed for a long, long time now that the whole Liberal Media Conspiracy was a concoction of Nixon's, and a brilliant bit of long-term strategy. You cannot disprove the existence of a conspiracy, and by its nature, a conspiracy actively works to eliminate all proof of its existence.

Of course, "liberal" didn't really become a dirty word until the 1988 presidential campaign. Same time "card-carrying member of the ACLU" became a smear.

So today, as you observe, the press bends over backwards to avoid being accused of liberal bias. In the name of "balance", they give equal time to the round-earthers and the flat-earthers.