Looks like the media's dream of "Tet2" is going up in flames. IMHO Tet68 was the high-water mark of the institutional media, when they turned a catastrophic communist defeat into a decisive victory. NVA commander Vo Nguyen Giap has said as much in his book,
How We Won the War.
In the late 60s, perhaps 10 people controlled the entire flow of information in the US, and no more than 3 or 4 in Britain. Today it is very different. Outlets have proliferated, the idea of a socialist talking head like Cronkite being "the most trusted man in America" is laughable, and any one of us can make daily contact through the net with eyewitnesses in any part of the world.
Media power has been declining for years, slowly at first and more precipitously in recent years. The media lords are feeling the heat. I think they have lost touch with reality, like Hitler in his bunker, and are trying desperately to revive the unbridled power that their predecessors enjoyed in the 60s.
RATmedia power is the ONLY thing holding al Kerry up. That is what the GOP needs to go after. Kerry is irrelevent we must go after his support system and show its irrefutable bias and deceit. Bush's most significant enemy is the RATmedia. Until its influence is reduced to that of the Weekly World News our nation is in danger.
This whole feeding frenzy about Clarke is a testimonial to its power to create a scandal out of NOTHING. Almost a month of bashing and headlines created ex nihilo. Sick.