The Media, Losing Their Way By David S. Broder Sunday, September 26, 2004; We don't yet know who will win the 2004 election, but we know who has lost it. The American news media have been clobbered. In a year when war in Iraq, the threat of terrorism and looming problems with the federal budget and the nation's health care system cry out for serious debate, the news organizations on which people should be able to depend have been diverted into chasing sham events: a scurrilous and largely inaccurate attack on the Vietnam service of John Kerry and a forged...
