[PoisedWoman]

CNN is definitely not the only guilty party.

The minute I heard Rush read this NYT report this morning, I remembered seeing Jim Avila on NBC reporting from Havana in 2000. He was standing on the same street corner I'd stood on six months before crying my eyes out about what a mess the place was and the dreadful conditions the Cubans had to endure. But Avila saw it another way; he was standing there saying how great life was, how much the people liked Castro. I wrote him an email pronto telling him that I KNEW he was flat-out lying.

Avila got an award from media watchdog group mediaresearch.org for the lies he spun in Cuba after Elian was snatched by the Clintonistas and sent back:

Semper Fidel Award (for Jim Avila’s Admiration of Fidel Castro)

"What is deprogramming? What is reeducation? The young man [Elian] will go back into the, into the school system in Cuba. The school system in Cuba teaches that communism is the way to succeed in life and it is the best system. Is that deprogramming or is that national heritage? That’s certainly what he’ll be learning. He’ll also be living in a different kind of society, a society that many people here in Cuba like. The CIA, in fact, says that if the borders were open that most, 90 percent of the population here in Cuba would stay in Cuba because they like it."
-- NBC News reporter Jim Avila from Cuba on CNBC’s Upfront Tonight, June 27 " (from http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/bestof/2000/best13-15.asp

Media corruption runs wide and deep like an open sewer whose stench you cannot escape. It's time to clean it up.

[Howlin]

Remember back a few weeks ago when I kept saying that with any luck perhaps the media would be a "casualty" of this war, too?

Today's my birthday. This is a good present.......LOL.

[goodnesswins]

I have a feeling the internet is changing a lot of this!!!

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

"Media corruption runs wide and deep like an open sewer whose stench you cannot escape. It's time to clean it up. "

You are so right, PW! BRAVO for your efforts!

I am sure that somewhere in this great land, there are enterprising souls who can come up with an apt "clean it up" solution.

Let's get to work to figure it out.

(Howlin - I did not see the article, info you mentioned in your response to me a few hundred posts ealier....)