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We are under attack from an insidious enemy within and we need to take this very seriously! Perhaps what we really need is a Special Prosecutor appointed to investigate the collusion involved in the on-going efforts to unseat George W. Bush!

Rush has lately been occasionally saying that "the media" are not in the pocket of the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party follows journalism.
It is easy to see why "objective" journalism would be leftish.

First because it is arrogant to claim, and especially arrogant to debate on the basis of a claim, of a virtue. The arrogance of claiming objectivity leads to negativity towards the people who make the country work.
Second, because journalism's deadlines make journalism superficial compared to a book which might someday be written about whatever subject journalism treats on a given day - and most subjects journalism reports are not even worth writing a book about.
Liberalism includes a de facto cabal of journalists who go along and get along with each other. The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate

Rush has lately been occasionally saying that "the media" are not in the pocket of the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party follows journalism.

Why should it be a surprise that organized crime controls the major money sources. Hollywood, ABC,NBC,CBS,CNN,TNN.

And those who control that money, control those who can be bought.

And Bill and Hillary liked being bought.

Without a doubt, journalists have fallen from grace and that "The Fourth Estate can no longer be viewed as "Guardians of democracy ~ Defenders Of The Public Interest".

In 1945, the Supreme Court, in a case called Associated Press v. U.S., wrote that "...the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public..? Yet, under the Clinton Administration (and despite laws specifically designed to prevent it) merger after merger took place until the actual number of corporations dominating most of every mass medium dropped from 23 media firms to 6 mega-media corporations by the Spring of 2000!

But even this number is deceiving ~ the power and influence of these mega-conglomerates is understated by counting them as 'six' because, in reality, these six are actually intertwined! They own stock in each other, they cooperate in joint media ventures, and among themselves they divide profits from some of the most widely viewed programs on television, cable and movies.

As foreseen by the Supreme Court in 1945, this consolidation of power and control has been to the detriment to us all as the media role shifted from ensuring democracy to undermining the function of true democracy.

Under this condensed, goal oriented management, our nation's "Guardians Of The Peoples Right to Know" have mutated into "opinion shapers" who present very specific information in a manner which meets a very specific agenda.

If you walk through the front door of Columbia School of Journalism, one of the first thing you would see is this paragraph, cast on a bronze plaque:

This paragraph is from an article written in 1904 by Joseph Pulitzer where he argued the need for a ethically trained and disciplined approach to journalism. Like the 1945 Supreme Court Justices, Pulitzer realized how very important certain standards are to the security of this nation.