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Brilliant commentary on the press.

Muchos Gracias.

You need to keep telling this story.

How long?
You are correct, of course - I need to tell that story. It’s just that it just seems that, even on FR, few will engage in a discussion of the points I make about wire service journalism.
Sometimes I feel like Cassandra warning of the Trojan Horse. It just seems so ironic, when by all rights I should be "preaching to the choir” here. I am saying that not only do we have a legitimate right to the opinions we are drawn to FR because of, our primary opposition is provably sailing under false colors and proposing how they might be brought to book.
Everyone seems to just take for granted that it’s impossible to “bell the cat.” Just maybe, there is an outside chance it could be pulled off. I saw a credible-seeming web posting to the effect that the AP was found in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act ‘way back in 1945. Case out of Chicago. Back then, of course, the mission of the AP - to economically propagate news around the country “instantaneously” - made it seem “too big to fail.” Six decades and an Internet later, the cost of nationwide communication is de minims - and the mission of the AP is now insignificant. We don’t have to economize on bandwidth any more. Any and all reporters can report to any and all Americans. Just like Drudge does.
If you think about it, FR is all about debunking the “gatekeepers” of information about what the politicians and the government are doing. Why do people speak of “the media” when “wire service journalism” is the exact target? Why blunt your attack that way??? And why limit your attack to one more example - among thousands and probably millions - of bias in wire journalism, and never attack the principle that the wire service journalists deserve no respect for having superior wisdom?
No facts, no logic, no ancient writings of wisdom which command our respect - nothing indicates that wire service journalists are anything more than shills. And yet we-the-people accord them pride of place, and cry in outrage when they violate “the sacred principle of objectivity” again. As if they ever did anything else!
It was the strawberries, I tell you!! Augh!!!