Sad that the public is left to twist in the wind between a conniving, deceitful government and media too cowardly and/or too lazy to do its job. Fear of losing one’s job is no excuse. And the public is not blameless, either, in its complacent swallowing of whatever self-serving lies corporate media and the government choose to feed us. That unholy alliance wants to sell to us in order to profit – it’s what corporations do – and what it’s selling is propaganda.

Mnemosyne, he hasn’t exactly given them a whole lot to work with.

It’s a lot easier when things are going well, but it’s pretty difficult to keep telling everybody that stinking pile of garbage is a five-star meal and make them believe it. It’s only the hardcore Koolaid-drinkers left now…

The Corporate media is not lazy, it fulfills the function its tasked to do: to keep america asleep and support for Bushco high.

Given that current polls show that Bush’s disapproval rate is about 75 percent, it’s not exactly fulfilling that function, either.

The press is being constantly weakened by a government that has learned the ethical lines of journalism and will do anything to make sure journalists don’t and can’t cross those lines, while in the mean time stepping over its own ethical boundaries.

Government has been very threatening to the press, and as you can see, its own PR. While I’ll admit part of it is corporate (conservative) media, part of it is inherently the government’s fault for being deceitful and opaque.

The Corporate media is not lazy, it fulfills the function its tasked to do: to keep america asleep and support for Bushco high. Thats the lesson of the Vietnam war; control of the message is everything.
Im bettin that the same economic pressures on examplified above also applies to the reporters and news anchors. Ask the wrong questions and your career is over. Play along and your lavishly rewarded.

Somehow, the fact that some people 230+ years ago founded the nation on some then fairly unique principles gives most Americans that feeling that we have been granted a lifetime exemption from governmental tyranny, and it’s not necessary to concern ourselves with monitoring government and making corrections when it goes astray.

But while most of us have looked down our noses at examples of governments gone astray in other countries, telling ourselves that the citizens of those countries are less evolved, less educated, and that they’re unable to see the evil in men’s (it’s almost always men) hearts – there have been those among us who’ve instead taken notes…

If the entity that found the above information and can offer evidence to back it up, then it stands to reason that the press can too. It is their job to do so and when they don’t, they don’t they are no longer journalists, period.

Fact is, we need a critical, fact checking, research hounding, root rutting press to keep power in check. Since the American population on average will change the channel when the facts get too thick, the press, all run by corporate entities, will then get lazy and not do its job. Facts don’t pay the bills. Fluff sells.