Smell it?

[Horse with no Name]

It's fear. It has it's own pungent smell. Animals can smell it.
The media has played the game that the WH set the rules for.
Refusing to report the news, smoothing over discrepancies, facilitating the spread of partisan hate....etc.
Problem is, that this administration got greedy. They got arrogant. They got sloppy.
Left too many loose ends lying around.
Now...the press has a choice. They can continue to facilitate this facade and go down in proverbial flames, or like any self-respecting rat, flee the ship.
What do YOU think they will do?
The fear is in the air. It's tangible. They'd be fools to ignore it.
I have no doubt dark days are ahead for our country, but I also have no doubts that we will recover.
Peace.

[Booster]

1. Good post with a lot of truth to it. The press has put themselves

on the hot seat; either follow this group on its path to destruction, or start reporting the truth. It really is a hard decision, but if they don't do the latter, they will lose all of their credibility for many, many years and may never get it back. The internet(s) has passed them by just like they passed radio years ago. Times they are achangin.

[PATRICK]

2. Consider what "they" are

and the answer may be logical: more of the same with feigned surprise and reviews of the new Gilligan Island's movie.

What controls the investigation and release of the story make them nearly incapable of doing the news until the news is in the province of incontrovertible history. In THAT case it would be better to go to historians than frauds. As for the news as a truth crusade they are equally incapable having surrendered that mantle of glory after their failure to turn the nation against Bill Clinton over a sex scandal.

They'd have to fire a lot of well paid RW stooges. That would take time or the ratings crisis would destroy them. They'd have to unleash their reporters and surrender control while their biggest bed companion and provider still holds absolute power. The corporate entities who own the homogenized blather and the RW spin machine would have to go vacation to Switzerland or Costa Rica. The other magnates in more powerful industries would have to Bush loose first. By now it is too late to do damage control without inflicting more damage.

So I expect the same thing as on all past issues(even Watergate in a sense). Follow the spiral down like whipped dogs leaving many doors open and many spin lines active to support Bush, ignore, leave unresolved anything that is not nailed down already, absolutely in the minds of the public THEY were supposed to be informing.

In Vietnam WHO was responsible? What lessons were learned? The country was no more informed or united about the plain facts than the South and North were reconciled after the Civil War. In our enthusiasm we might congratulate them as sharks to the bloodfest but in actual fact, if you pay some small intention, you will see them still earning failing marks, limiting the story and running and hiding.

No matter what finally gets in the headlines. Remember the somber "tragedy" of the great man Nixon? That kind of pious sweeping the rest of it under the rug got us into today's sorry mess just as all other denials and leanings toward the RW have ruined the truth landscape in America nearly beyond repair.

Don't expect too much from this ruined "fourth estate". It's a slum with some honest people trapped inside. In order to change the top of the pyramid(one major media ownership) has to turn so completely against Bush that it cascades all the way down. Instead you will see chaos, silence and footdragging, if not a simple continuation of the war against the public mind.