[CasearianDaoist]

I would disagree. There was never a time since FDR when the MSM was not a den of Leftists. The "modern media," as we know it, was in effect created by the Left to promote their ideologies. Here I am specifically referring to broadcast media and the elite press. This is the one flaw of this article: The notion that broadcast media and the elite print media need to "return" to some sort objectivity that was once their standard. But there is nothing of the sort to "return" too.

They have always been propogadists. America is just finally catching on to their con game.

[PGalt]

Well stated. Total agreement.

[January24th]

And I don't disagree with your disagreement. Actually, after posting that earlier remark, I remembered researching much older articles from the early 1900's, the Communist/proletariat/workers propaganda. And one could keep tracing back through the history of publishing and see that the press has been pretty much an agent of dissent since Gutenberg.

What the press has taught us is that the cure for disinformation is more information. Free-flowing knowledge keeps any one group from becoming the "guardians of truth," but can be admittedly messy and unattractive to those who have a need for order and discipline. In the last century we saw a very disciplined and orderly press corp combined with a romanticized star-power and cultural "lock" on perceptions. I think that is a recent and powerful phenomena that has been hard to break.

Bias in the press will never leave, but the cure for it has been the internet...the Gutenberg of our times.

[angkor]

They have always been propagandists. America is just finally catching on to their con game.

Absolutely correct, and I think VDH missed the mark on this one. He's also wrong about "liberal talk radio" being "already served".

In fact "liberal talk radio" cannot stand on its own two feet because liberal ideas are factually and logically indefensible, and so liberal radio serves rants and insults as a substitute.

I don't mind propaganda, so long as the purveyors identify themselves as such, and they're entertaining.