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Here - you don't understand.

With each column/story/blurb or whatever in the MSM, especially papers like the esteemed NYT, the reader is treated to an unwritten rule of today's journalism: Every column penned, every editorial espoused, every television interview done, is always done in a vacuum!

You are not supposed to recall earlier things written/spoken that do not jibe with the agenda! Even worse, you're not supposed to throw those things back in their faces! They expressly reserve that right for themselves.

They are a bit upset these days, what with the Internet, radio talk shows, Fox News Channel, and places like FR. We do not give them what they feel is their just due. They are, after all, The Media, more to fawned upon than a rock star, and worshiped just this side of The Almighty, whilst us poor peons are just that - peons, low lifes, fodder, sheep, and whatever other degrading epitaphs they (not you - Heavens, not you!) might think of.

I used to think a lot of these people were simply longing for the mystique of the good ol' days - Vietnam, Watergate, etc., etc. And while some may actually think this way, I'm becoming convinced they simply long for the days when their words went unquestioned, accepted blindly by adoring masses.

Of course, there is unquestioning obedience to the Agenda, which overrides all else. Truth is usually the first casualty here, but a lot of them seem to have lost a taste for the truth as a matter of course, and so are not really bothered by casualty.

But as the MSM continues to sink slowly into the horizon, plunging unfettered into oblivion, they will doubtless come too late to the conclusion that the whole exercise has simply been a job rather than an adventure, and not a very good one at that.

Trust me - they are more to be pitied than scorned, and a part of me (admittedly, a very small part!) feels sorry for them.

Not so much so that I won't sleep soundly tonight, tho!

CA....

"With each column/story/blurb or whatever in the MSM, especially papers like the esteemed NYT, the reader is treated to an unwritten rule of today's journalism: Every column penned, every editorial espoused, every television interview done, is always done in a vacuum!

You are not supposed to recall earlier things written/spoken that do not jibe with the agenda! Even worse, you're not supposed to throw those things back in their faces! They expressly reserve that right for themselves."

Thanks for the explanation!