It would have nice if the media had actually reported Bush's crookery...

[Bread and Circus]

rather than just wait until it might be too late and endorse Kerry.

I certainly appreciate all the newspaper endorsements but the media should have just "done its job" and reported the news. This President's administration is riddled w/ scandals, crookery, totalitarian tactics, secrecy, bribing foreign govt's, plunging us deeply into debt, and lying our way into a tragic war with no end in sight. For three years we have received milquetoast "he said, she said" reporting at best. The same newspapers that are endorsing Kerry regularly put out the message that he's stuffy, boring, out of touch, patrician, and lacks a political backbone. They tried to play "non-partisan" while all they really did was ignore and fail to report the obvious - that George W. Bush is a disastrous President with a ton of facts and stories to back such a charge. However, for every Niger/Aluminum Tube/Abu Ghraib story they covered they provided as much or more coverage on roundly discredited stories like the Swift Boat smear times 2. One part for the story itself and one part for the pundits to keep the anemic infarcting GOP generated load of bullshit alive.

The biggest problem in this country is not Bush. He's just a symptom of a disease - that of an ignorance made imminently possible by the "media". The kind of ignorance of policy, facts, and details that allows generally decent people to make the wrong decision once and possibly again. If people were presented the facts in an unambiguous way, Bush would probably be polling at 38% or less. Instead all we get is "The Democrats think Bush is bad but the GOP spin machine doesn't think so and we are going to blandly give both sides of every issue where fact carries no more weight than fiction...and oh by the way we just heard from unnamed RW sources that Kerry is stuffy and boring and how in the hell is he going to pay for his health plan?"

[popstalin]

1. I think that's what John Stewart was saying on Crossfire n/t

[MADem]

2. And the CABLE COMEDIAN SHALL LEAD THEM...! n/t

[still_one]

3. what media?

[MSgt213]

4. The biggest problem in this country are corporations and their desire to

own everything. While corporations are necessary part of our economical based their actions and conduct cannot go unchecked or even loosely policed. They will screw the country everytime in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

5. The media did report all this

...just not in this country!

[Bread and Circus]

6. Ha, that's funny....

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