From The Halls Of Montezuma To The Set Of Meet The Press

Something I don't do often enough is to read Digby.

I don't know why, she is freakin' awesome, now that we know she is a she, I can say that.

I am going to link to her piece on what is being called our War On The Press.

That is perfect framing for what she nails as what has been going on in Left Blogistan now for years.

You see it, I see it, everybody sees the horseshit that passes for journalism in this country.

And they do have an army.

There are so many right wing shills that get paid to force feed the American public a constant diet of misinformation that it is mind boggling.

People like Jonah Goldberg.

Where in the Hell did this bumbling idjit come from and just who in the world thinks he is a serious journalist?

Yet there he is, in my local paper, on the editorial page.

Have you ever actually read one of his pieces all the way through?

I have, and it was pitiful. I was embarrassed that the premier regional newspaper felt obligated to even print it.

Key word, obligated.

So much of the misinformation and omission of real news today is rampant because of obligation.

Obligation to a paycheck, an ideology, to access.

This last little item is the core problem I have with the press and their five year old mentality that if they are mean to a politician, then that politician will cut off their access for information.

Make no mistake that this is exactly what the Bush administration has done in the past and does not bother to hide that is it's main way of keeping the press on message .

True investigative , adversarial reporting in this country is on life support.

Instead we get National Enquirer quality news that absolutely has no true value. Who gives a fuck if Barack Obama doesn't wear a God Damned lapel pin flag?

Do you?

I sure as fuck don't care.

What about say, the politicalization of our Justice Department that gets any investigation of Republican wrong doing swept under the rug and democrats targeted and prosecuted with falsified evidence and witness testimony?

Hear anything about that after the local forecast?

Me neither.

Make no mistake that what should be on every front page of any reputable newspaper in this country will not be published.

Hundreds of Republican shills have taken over the nations airwaves and we have bitched, moaned and complained about it for years.

I don't even bother to watch television anymore and the only thing a newspaper is good for is wiping windows and masking off parts I don't want over spray to get on when I am painting something.

It is the reason Blogs have exploded on the scene, exploded.

Five years ago I had never even heard of a blog, hell, four years ago.

The citizens of this country have wised up to the bullshit artists and have taken to sorting out what is real news and when it is being ignored.

The New York Fucking Times and the Washington God Damn Post have certainly seen the effects of this on their bottom lines, so has the Los Angeles Bought And Sold Repeatedly Times.

When I have to go completely outside of my own country to get an unbiased account of what is really happening in the world around me, there is only one word that describes that condition;

Fascism.

Do me a favor in the comments, let me know where YOU go to get your news.

Cross Posted at Ornery Bastard