"How can we ever trust it again?"
We maybe never will, considering the recent Gallup media poll. We are discovering better news sources on the Internet, according to a Pew poll.
Americans tend to depart from the traditional when a better system or method is available, and for the MSM, that time is now at hand. As Jello Biafra said at Kent State a few years ago, "Be the media" - and we bloggers are.
Posted by pessimist at June 15, 2005 09:23 AMPess, you are right... back in 1999 when Rove was hatching his Bush for Pres plan,he clearly counted on Media Control as they keystone to making the takeover of the government by the WackChristian faction a reality. I doubt blogs/internets entered into his plans at all. Just think of where we would be today, as a nation, if the internets were not instantly countering the lies of BushCo. It is a sobering thought. I am amazed they have not outlawed them by now. I'm sure it's in the works.
Posted by T2 at June 15, 2005 09:37 AMAs for the latter question, when keller, sulzberger, miller (a tyro in comparison but she really pisses me off!), are fired or dismissed, books and memos opened that reveal their calumny, Paul Krugman becomes their Editorial Page Director, Frank Rich becomes their Ombudsman with Teeth, they start exposing every little detail of the High Crimes and Misdomeanor's and Treason and Murder and Crimes Against Humanity of every single bushco toad, rip the K Street crowd to shreds and expose grover, ralph, henry k, bush hw, and in general inform the public and lead the crusade to lock these em eff ers in the stocks with bags over their heads and electrodes tied to their tiny shriveled up parts, well, play loud Neil Young music for hours on end, oh, I could go on. And then maybe I'd consider giving them a chance. Maybe.
And what was the other question?
18 months, 18 minutes, what's the difference.
Thirtysix years ago some friends and I went to the Easter Parade in NYC. A Times reporter interviewed us, and used our names and a photo in a story. Not one word other than the names and photo was true. That's strike one.
Read a Times story, and cross out everything that has no clear attribution. Not much left, is there? That's how Kennedy could read the Times in 10 minutes- he knew what the slant of each story would be, and that none of them contained any real news.
Like all print-on-paper newspapers, the Times is dead already- it just ain't laid down yet.
Posted by serial catowner at June 15, 2005 02:28 PMToo easy on the New Yorker here. Remnick wrote some really crazy shit in favor of the war, and he published at least one deranged piece by Jeffrey Goldberg, though he did have the guts to go with Hersh too. But Remnick is as much on the hook for lefty-baiting bullshit as Thomas Friedman, though at least the New Yorker has pitched a half-assed apology.
Posted by david at June 15, 2005 08:07 PMhey...no fair...I called em bought and paid for whores first.
I be hatin on Jones man now;-)
Posted by SnarkyShark at June 15, 2005 10:47 PM