Reply #8: Customery dichotomy of the Amerikan Empire

[tom_paine]

On the one side, left-center journalists (who sometimes are actually half-worthy of the name) who are still trying to be fair and somewhat even-handed, and who ae trying to carry on, however ineffectually, the journalistic standards of the Old American Republic.

On the other side Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media propagandists who are as predictable in their positions 99% of the time as the Defenders of Stalin. No attempt at ethics, no attempt at fact-check, no dissenting voices or even-handed criticism. As Krugman said, they are propagandists, pure and simple.

(to be fair I did see Johnah Goldberg once weakly try to "criticize" conservatives in an echo of the Free Press of the Old Republic, but it was tepid weak and overwhelmed by the customary vicious lib-bashing--see even now I cannot stop KNOWING what THEY are)