By the way, each one of us can practice this fact at the local level.
We each live in a town or county serviced by one or two local radio stations, one or two local television stations, and one or two local newspapers. Each of these media outlets carries the AP or Reuters or CBS or NBC or ABC wire service. Each of these has chief news editor. This news editor lives in your town, just down the street from you. He has children going to school with your children. He attends the same local arts events. He eats at the same restaurants. He has a telephone. You can call him. You can call him with the itemized factual evidence of his 1) journalistic incompetence or 2) intellectual political fraud every single day. All you have to do is spend a bit of time with pretty much any national or international news story, documenting the ommissions (mostly), falsehoods, misplacement of newsworthy details, faulty analysis, etc., and confront him with it. You can do this every day.
We could have little teams in every little town of America doing this. Our editors would get a phone call every day.
Mocking. Ridicule. Sarcasm. Embarassment. But mostly providing fact-by-fact-by-fact evidence of the man's personal dishonest. To his face. To his name. To his house. To his family. To his community.
These media people really are scumbags and we should start treating them as such.
Scumbags would not gain an inch if it were not for people who buy scum.
And that’s the problem trying to beat scumbags using scum before a scum loving audience. At best the results are fickle.