[SMARTY]

The MSM for so many years could and did bank on the stupidity and gullibility of American voters. The culture of 'I saw/heard it on TV so it must be true' is something the MSM cultivated with the unfair advantage they had in the presentation of 'news' and information. The collusion of the educational system and teachers' union across the country was a tremendous advantage the MSM could bank on and that component in the betrayal of the American voter may never be corrected. But, now that alternatives are available to voters in the US the MSM continues in its misapprehsion about our true understanding of events. Maybe the MSM will always be 11 years or so behind the facts and realities of American political life. For that reason alone, who needs them? Every event or item that the MSM reports on bears that burden of incredulity for its 'remove' from the facts as represented elsewhere. You take their information not with a grain of salt but with the whole quarry.

[Mi-kha-el]

What's frustrating to me is when I lived in the Soviet Union, we did not have free press (see my tagline) and thought that there is one in the West. I came here and see that there is no free press here either in the sense that people caot get fair and balanced info but are being fed semi-digested lopsided propaganda. How is it different from the Soviet Union?