The MSM knows that the U.S. must be destroyed in order for their dream vision of socialism (read: gradle to grave central planning) and wealth redistribution (primarily **all** of the Wealth of the West sent to Africa) to have a chance of success.
Because as long as the U.S. stands, capitalism, democracy, republics, and the free choice of the individual will triumph.
To destroy the U.S., the MSM *wants* WMDs to proliferate. They *want* the nuclear family to disintegrate. They want every pillar of strength in the U.S. to be destroyed (e.g. religion, Boy Scouts, marriage, monogamy, real art, traditional food, internal combustion engine, etc.).
The MSM *wants* euthanasia, abortion, and gay sex because these things are all destabilizing to long term societal survival (if practiced in large enough numbers).
The MSM wants criminals freed and the death penalty abolished for the same reason: it further destabilizes society.
The MSM wants public transportation to replace private vehicles for similar reasons (e.g. the death of individual freedom of movement).
The MSM wants higher taxes to discourage capitalism as well as to redistribute wealth. The MSM wants to nationalize health care in order to limit individual choice.
This is why the MSM is gleeful when destabilizing classified information is leaked (e.g. Pentagon Papers, Abu Ghraib, terrorist prisons, NSA spying, etc.) on the one hand, yet the MSM feigns "outrage" when classified information such as "outing" Valerie Plame is made public.
It is all consistent with the MSM's overall goals of killing individual choice (gun control, anyone) while redistributing all, repeat, all of the Wealth of the West.
"It is all consistent with the MSM's overall goals of killing individual choice (gun control, anyone) while redistributing all, repeat, all of the Wealth of the West."
I agree with your post. As I see it, the MSM functions primarily as a tool of the worldwide organized hard left (WOHL). This is the organization that used to be International Communism, founded by the Soviets. It was run by the KGB, then an organ of the Soviet government.
Now it is run by the government of Russia, which is, essentially, the old KGB.
From an article in the Wall Street Journal, page 1, Wednesday, February 23, 2005:
"Mr. Putin him self served more than 15 years in the KGB and later headed its successor, the FSB. Since taking over the Kremlin in 2000, he has presided over an unprecedented influx of ex-KGB men into the upper echelons of power---men whose formative years were spent learning how to undermine the West's interests.
Prominent among the ex-KGB officials who now pace the Kremlin's corridors are Defense minister Sergei Ivanov, Interior Minister Rahid Nurgaliev, and FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev, as well as the heads of Russia's arms-export, defense-procurement, and drug-enforcement agencies. A close Putin aide and former KGB man, Victor Ivano, serves on the board of flagship airline OAO Aeroflot. A favorite parlor game in Russia is to divine which other senior officials and businessmen have suspicious gaps in their resume that suggest a past with the intelligence services."
I believe most of the MSM are not highly aware of who controls them and function to a large extent as "useful idiots".