Reply #14: I think most reporters aren't doing their job right because they can't

[MadHound]

95% of this country's media is controlled by six, count them, six corporations, half of whom are making direct profits off of this war, and all of which are benefitting from Bushco's misadministration.

The reporters know this, and know that if they stray to far, if they dig too deep, not only will they be fired, but they will be black-balled throughout the journalistic community. Witness Dan Rather, forced off the evening anchor spot, and is now hardly mentioned on CBS, much less anywhere else, all for telling the truth. That sends a very chilling message to any reporter. Thus, in order to preserve their jobs, careers, family and in some cases their very lives, the reporters have now gone into soft shoing the news. Don't ask the hard questions, don't investigate what's really happening, instead praise bush and pass the missing blonde.

We can write these people until our fingers bleed, but what we say is nothing to them compared to what their bosses or the government can do to them. It isn't about having drunk the koolaid of national security, or that the reporters think that they're protecting America. I think it is just one more example of the coin that both Bushco and corporate America deal in, fear. Fear of losing their livelihood, and possibly their very life if they say the wrong thing. Thus we stick to Michael Jackson and missing blondes, can't go wrong there.