[MizSterious]

"I also credit FreeRepublic and the internet with the downfall of mainstream media."

Bingo! Once you start paying attention to what's posted here on FR, you come to the solid realization that none of the news media even approaches telling the whole story. I do include Fox in this--while they are better than the others, they sometimes suffer from the same malady as the others.

Fox needs to watch its step, lest they, too, fall into the trap CNN and the regular networks are trying to escape. If they think their viewers will remain loyal even if liberal bias is allowed to take over, they'd better think again. People are discovering the internet, and television news could become the dinosaur of our age.

*Thought I'd ping Jim Robinson, for well-deserved kudos.

[BlessedByLiberty]

As long as FOX does not join up with the pack mentality so freely demonstrated by the mainstream-weakkneed cable cartel they will do well.

However, the minute they stray from their fair and balanced standard - what at one time we called "objective" journalism - they will also slide into the untrustworthy refuse bin where we find CNN, NY TImes, SF Chronicle may be found.