The "free press" is dead.

[kentuck]

Let me be the first today to pronounce them dead as a doorknob. They could not inform the American people even if they wanted. Because, if there are a few dedicated reporters and journalists that wishes to tell the truth, they are immediately co-opted and discounted by the counter-propaganda machine. The only difference between the two is that one wishes to tell the people the truth and the other wishes to spin propaganda for political and economic advantage. So it's the perfect balance - fair and balanced. The truth is never permitted to surface.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Now WE are the free press.

NGU.

[Burning Water]

3. Ain't it the truth.

I think the Internet is the way the truth will be distributed in the future. Keep letting the American people see the difference between the Dems and the Repukes, between the progressives and the conservatives, between right and wrong.

[marmar]

2. The one good result of the total corporatization of big media...

... is that independent and alternative media tend to flourish when that happens. And thank goodness for the 'Net.

[gizmo1979]

4. Woodward on Larry King would

not say the corruption had over taken government,but Bernstein said it corruption ran government that government was broke and had become a plutocarcy.Woodward thought this was funny and laughed.Woodward doesn't see himself as part of the problem he still thinks he's a reporter,but what he really is is a propaganda tool for the Bush administration.

[concerned citizen23]

5. Read this research paper and you'll understand

How very true this is...and how it has happened...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2461267&mesg_id=2461267

[WCGreen]

6. Repeat after me....

There is no reporting on TV....

There is no Journalism on TV...

All that is on TV is a good, or at least pleasant looking person reading the AP news...

Or, a camera following something that moves......

[ClassWarrior]

7. "A camera following something that moves..."

That about sums up the fable news networks.

NGU.

[WCGreen]

9. Pretty much....

Point and shoot....

[MrPrax]

8. Was there ever a 'free press'?

Doubtful that this 'concept' ever was fully realized to begin with...

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. No it's not

It's just moved to a new location.

WE ARE THE FREE PRESS.

No one ever dreamed that there would be an army of activists working to bring the truth to the world 24/7 and doing it for FREE.

That's why they can't stop us and we will be their downfall. They never expected that people would do this for no money or fame. It's beyond their comprehension.

[Harry S Truman]

11. Mindless press

Even where there is some commitment to real news, it is pushed away by the relentless chase of all things mindless. How can election reform get on the front pages when newspapers can't get enough of "teen" stores, "American Idol" and "buy this new gadget"?

TV died long before than in a wash of commcercialism and emptyheaded reporting. Think national news sucks? Watch local news - it is by far much worse - nothing but weather sports and the latest housefire and traffic tie-up.

America the stupid.

[Evergreen Emerald]

12. It is not mindless

It is an extremely will organized propaganda machine.

[Joey Liberal]

13. At least Helen Thomas is still kicking

When she goes, we've lost everything........

[SnookieDog]

14. Not good for us.

At least when most of the major networks and newspapers were trying to play down the middle, most mainstream Americans got thier news straight. Since the pubes began their jihad against the majors, with the goal of trying to move people to the internet and talk shows for their main news source, fewer people are watching the network news or reading the newspapers. In my opinion, that is why the pubes are getting better at getting "their message out". Before Rush, Hannity, Fox, et al, their was no slanted coverage so people got the truth and the pube talking points never got off the ground. Now, too many impressionable people are getting biased reporting form the right, and are drinking the wingnut coolaid . . . by the gallon. I liked it much better the way it was when the press was truly free of bias.