sick of media hypocrisy

[onenote]

This rant has been building up for a while -- I am so sick of the handwringing by the media over the CBS document story. Assuming that CBS was snookered and the docs are "fake" -- why the hell isn't the media making its first priority exposing who created the docs and why they did so? Setting up panels to "investigate" the situation is ridiculous. Until you know who did it and why, how can an investigation tell you anything about how to avoid such situations in the future?

And, in any event, hoaxing the media (if that's what happened to CBS) has happened in the past and will happen in the future. Remember when Fox News ran with a story about "hunting Bambi's" -- a group that was allegedly selling the chance for guys to hunt down bikini clad babes with paintball guns? Total hoax, and Fox was completely burned. Much more significantly, there was the story 18 months ago in the Christian Science Monitor about some documents allegedly being found that tied Saddam to 9/11. Fox jumped all over this, with Hume and his cronies proclaiming this was just the tip of the iceberg. Only the documents turned out to be forgeries...I don't recall Fox or members of Congress calling for an inquiry then or demanding that the CSM's editor be fired.

The media loves itself in a way that goes past masturbation. The fac that the CBS "story" still is dominating the news is ridiculous. According to Tim Russert, John Kerry isn't "connecting" with the public -- well, if true, its attributable more to the filter/spin that media is putting on the Kerry campaign than to anything that Kerry does. When he gets to present himself to the public directly -- either in campaign stops or in his acceptance speech and recent press conferences, he connects like gangbusters.

End of rant.

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[eaprez]

1. Someone needs to organize a boycott

of products advertised......the right has been very successful at this....they got the Reagan movie kicked from network TV, they got Bill Mahyer's show kicked off the network.....someone like moveon or air america should spearhead this. Money speaks louder than indignance.