[Personal Responsibility]

The little people don't know their place when dealing with the high and mighty liberal elites of CNN or CBS or the Columbia Journalism Review? Maybe the little people don't care.

Remember, the mighty lib elites are the same people who think they can spend your money better than you can. They can help you run your lives by decreeing you *must not* drive without a seat belt. Or bike without a helmet. Or own a gun. If I choose to not wear a seat belt or a helmet, that should be my choice. With that choice I absolve the car manufacturer, other drivers, bike makers etc...for injuries sustained that would not have been sustained otherwise? Sound like a decent deal?

Every problem that exists, to them, can be answered with the phrase "more government" instead of "Let the people make up their own minds".

That they think the news should be doled out in much the same way as our money and our laws is hardly surprising. They have the same air of arrogance as any royal family from the pre-revolutionary eras. Eventually, the liberal MSM will get overthrown by a popular revolt as more and more people discover the interent and the truth.

Won't that be great?

[kcvl]

There are two sides to most stories, but the two sides are not always equally valid, and they don't necessarily warrant equal attention in the press. Steve Lovelady, the managing editor of The Columbia Journalism Review's CampaignDesk website, thinks reporters are so afraid of being perceived as biased that they are reluctant to make evaluations of controversial, partisan attacks like those from the anti-Kerry veterans. But Lovelady thinks that is a big mistake. "It shouldn't just be he/said she said," he argues. "It should be he said/she said/we say - and here's why we say it."

What Steve Lovelady is advocating, of course, is precisely what thousands of political weblogs do every day. Which is why they have emerged as the big media winner in this campaign. They have broken the stranglehold that Big Media once had as the exclusive gatekeepers of what is a news story and what isn't.

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