The blogosphere, for one.
I think ways are evolving, but I am not sure what they will look like, to take the unaccountable to account. The problems of bad reporting are getting out of hand. I think something analogous is developing with Congress and Congressional committees. Like Able Danger - the 9/11 Commission may have gone way too far to politicize and twist their findings.
Who's watching the [media] watchdog?The blogosphere, for one.
I think ways are evolving, but I am not sure what they will look like, to take the unaccountable to account. The problems of bad reporting are getting out of hand. I think something analogous is developing with Congress and Congressional committees. Like Able Danger - the 9/11 Commission may have gone way too far to politicize and twist their findings.
The Democratic majority Congresses of old used to conduct tendentious hearings in lockstep with journalism. Now that they are minorities in the House and Senate, the reportercrats demand "independent" investigative commissions to come to the predetermined conclusion of journalism (i.e., that everything is "Bush's fault").Middle America is under constant assault from the reportercrats - journalists, the rich, and much of the poor. The Republican congressional majorities have the duty to act as lawyers for, who are Middle America - for their constituents. That does not mean holding tendentious congressional hearings - but it does mean holding hearings which the reportercrats will call tendentious. It means having the courage to make the case for truth, when letting liars win the propaganda battle would be easier. It means telling the truth when The New York Times and The Washington Post - and ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS - all swear that the truth is a lie.