[Cicero]

It cuts both ways. And, I'm afraid, mostly the other way. Clinton could never have been elected to office, gotten re-elected, or escaped impeachment if the news media had been honest.

Worse the news media's habit of twisting and distorting the news is its habit of suppressing the news. Many of the crimes that Dems commit simply never get reported.

So, sure, maybe the media pimps make the Dems overconfident. But for the most part, they have good reason to be confident. Because they can commit any kind of election fraud, raise money from the Chinese by selling them nuclear secrets, even kill off inconvenient White House aides and cabinet secretaries, and no one will ever call them to account.

[exDemMom]

Clinton could never have been elected to office, gotten re-elected, or escaped impeachment if the news media had been honest.

True. However, there is reason to believe the media is having less influence these days. The Internet, for instance, relatively small when Klintoon took office, is now huge. Talk radio is growing. The big three TV networks have been steadily losing viewers for a number of years. All of these trends, which were developing during the Klintoon years, now seem to have coalesced into something powerful. It's a wonderful thing.