[pillut48]

But there's also a dark side to this horizontal system. Without "media mediation," without the persistent truth-telling, fact-checking efforts of well-trained professionals, falsehoods can flourish.

So I, a poor American slob out here in flyover country, cannot read or hear or see a 'raw' news story and figure it out myself--it's got to go threw the 'blender' of journalistic review and editing before I can truly understand a story?? Journalism=baby food?? Sorry, Cokie, the days of your ilk dumbing down/modifying news stories to YOUR qualifications is over-done-ended-kaput. FR is the future of journalism, welcome to the 21st century!! We don't need no steenking middle-man telling us what happened when we can determine it ourselves! *big raspberry at Cokie*

[pillut48]

threw=through

Sorry, sleep deprivation with the twins strikes again!
But you knew what I meant. :-)

[Windcatcher]

Typical liberal arrogance on their part. They think they’re enlightened and smarter than the rest of us.

My message to Pyongyang Cokie? I have a 149 IQ and a pair of Master’s degrees. She can kindly bite me.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

” So I, a poor American slob out here in flyover country, cannot read or hear or see a ‘raw’ news story and figure it out myself—it's got to go threw the ‘blender’ of journalistic review and editing before I can truly understand a story?? “ .... in other words.... the KGBDBMSM is only allowed to shape our opinion or world views.