Reply #8: This corporate media is indeed beneath contempt.

[seafan]

The conclusion:

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You'd think that the mainstream media would bump into each other in their haste to cover one or all of the above. But no. While C-Span alone carried the interminably long Senate debate-about-the-debate on at least three toothless, nonbinding resolutions addressing Bush's ongoing ejaculation in Iraq -- while six US helicopters were brought down by enemy fire -- while the Bush neocons were back at their old game of manipulating intelligence to justify a war on Iran -- the silly, somnolent scriveners chose instead to overdose on the "Air Pelosi" scandal.

Reporters clambered aboard the Swift Boat with their Republican "unnamed sources," and went full throttle at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for daring to request a plane large enough to fly from Washington to California without refueling. The story quickly went from "Air Pelosi" to "Pelosi One." It went from, "The new Speaker of the House is apparently asking for a big travel upgrade" to "the San Francisco Democrat is abusing the perks of power by attempting to commandeer a fancy jumbo-size military jet with a 'distinguished visitor compartment with sleep accommodations.'"

The reporters-cum-repeaters rounded out the jam-packed 10-day news period either shouting that all destructive weapons in Iraq come from Iran -- or curled up on the nation's sidewalks shrieking in ecstasy about Anna Nicole Smith.

The U.S. media is beneath contempt, and can never redeem itself for the damage it has wrought on this republic by its fawning allegience to a band of crooked, war-mongering fools. By sinking to reading scrubbed-clean White House press releases, by relinquishing all pretences of honesty, values and integrity in order to ingratiate itself to the ravenous corporate beast, its members are little more than "enablers" who cannot remember why they became journalists in the first place.

W.C. Fields once said, "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." That time is now. Molly Ivins was right -- it's time we hit the streets, beating on pots and pans and take our country back. Our first stop should be at the source of our country's problems -- the shallow and destructive corporate media.

Here's a wrenching reminder of its stinking failure.

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January, 20, 2001
Washington, DC

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