[baseball_fan]

…he charges that just as Sept. 11 "pointed up the myriad failures" of the U.S. government, "it also revealed the abject failure of the news media."… media failed to warn viewers of "the storm clouds approaching our shores," and suggests that was a betrayal of the public trust.

Is the an accurate assessment, and if so would this explain why much of the mainstream media was so loud in its complaints regarding a failure in intelligence on the part of the government, i.e. they were pointing fingers away from themselves regarding a cutback in international coverage?

[baseball_fan]

We need more "Martha Stewart" coverage.

[rwfromkansas]

Fenton is a darn good journalist.

I was disappointed when he retired, but he got no airtime anymore, so who could blame the guy for saying goodbye? I had not seen a report by him in months.

If tv news ignores his criticism, they do so at their own peril.

[martin_fierro]

I'm wasn't a big fan of Geoff Metcalf when he was a radio talk show host on KSFO, but I gotta give him credit for recognizing back in 1997-98 or so what a danger OBL posed.

[Springman]

Bump for later read.

[Tacis]

The old time TV "news" (non-cable) ISN'T NEWS! No only is what they present biased to the left, there is damn little information or "news." Tiem it! The national "news" is only about 18 minutes. Then, subtract the human interest stories or reports that "push" somes sponsor's medications and there isn't much left. Even CNN does a better job of infoming. ABCCBSNBC will tell you what's wrong with what Bush did today but little else. In fact, I often watch the news on a Spanish language station. I don't understand too much but the coverage is much, much broader. Even watching the BBC on PBS provides a much broader scope.

Here's an exercise. Take a piece of paper and a subwatch. Time every segment on the old-timey "news" and list the subject. Then, count the number of segments that are really "news," that is, something they could have brodcast any day and it wouldn't have made a difference, and add up the time for those segments. If you get 10 minutes a day, I'd be surprised. What passes as "national news" on the dying outlets is nothing but cheap content for some high priced advertising.

Again, even CNN provides much more information on a much more timely basis.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

they were pointing fingers away from themselves

Big Journalism is an illegitimate Establishment, in that the members thereof studiously avoid competing to tell controversial truth. They love controversial lies, since they are so much cheaper talk, but they are not interested in controversial truth.

[VRWC For Truth]

They are lefties. In their opinion we deserve to be attacked. The fifth column. It's about time to start charging these kooks with treason.

[TASMANIANRED]

The MSM likes dictators and plays nice, nice with them.

[ChadGore]

Liberals waist so much time trying to blame everyone *except* those who attached us.

[PISANO]

It came as a SHOCK to me after the USS Cole was nearly sunk that our ESTEEMED X42 treated it as a minor incident. Throughout HISTORY an attack on our NAVAL vessels is considered an act of WAR. What we got was a few cruise missles and then SILENCE.

There is NO GREATER responsiblity for 911 save the TERRORISTS themselves, than X42!!