On Mar 20, 11:25 pm, "sdgreen" wrote:

Yes but the entire US media, print or TV to radio news is completely messed
up. One cannot really rely on what they say. Even the weather reports are
suspect. ... then you have the ranting religious nutbats attempting to make
some strange point that has nothing to do with reality.

What ever happend to the professional reporting of the Walter Cronkites
etc.?

Journalism in America used to be known as "the fourth estate", serving
the public in the role as a quasi checks and balance apparatus.
Regretibly they now serve the interests of their masters - corporate
America.

In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the majority of all news media in
the U.S. Today 5 huge corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's
News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) --
now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's
NBC is a close sixth. By the by, General Electric is one of the
country's largest defense contractors. Do you really think they were
going to report that the Shrub was lying about Iraq having wmd's? They
made hundreds of millions of dollars off the war.

"The fourth estate" has become "for the estate." Transnational
corporations and Governments being the "estate". "Whose bread I eat
whose song I sing."