On 18 Feb 2005 12:41:13 -0800, "Hatfield"
wrote:

If the *mainstream news providers have betrayed the people*, then the
people, sitting on their living room couches, will not be happy with
the newscast they are now watching. And so they will simply pick up the
handy clicker and change the channel !!

So not to worry, David, America is free to watch what we want, and free
to give poor viewer ratings to any news outlet which we distrust. Which
will cause their advertisers to start sponsoring other media channels
whose excellent ratings indicate the people are well pleased with their
content quality.

So really, David, thanks to capitalism and individual freedom, as
opposed to Government ownership and control, the problem you report is
(at least in America) automatically self correcting.

God bless America!.

Those people may as well be sitting on their couches shooting heroin.
There is virtually no real news on TV.