News vs. Lies

When a popular voice tells a lie, the passive majority among us will begin to promote it until it is perceived as the truth. Inundate sheep with manure long enough and they'll wallow in it.

Case in point: A recent poll indicated most people believed weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq and that the dictator had indeed been linked to the 9-11 terrorists. While facts showed otherwise, popular media, through vague and ambiguous "analysis",
propagated those perceptions.

Walter Cronkite was once quoted as saying, "The news is what I saw the
news is."  That seemingly arrogant remark has been taken several steps
further by today's so-called news organizations.  Just because you report
it, people do believe it.  There are a growing number of
"analysts" who purport to be "journalists", and while news
and commentary were once divided, today, opinion-based content is pervasive in
popular media.

Diane Sawyer was on Letterman recently and she made a comment that everyone
should hear: "Journalists don't make commentaries."  Thank you,
Diane!

"The Fox Commentary Channel" would be a much more fitting name for
Murdock's conservative media property.  href="mailto:danny@radiowiseguys.com">What do you think?

First Bubba, then Howie. Am I next?

How long will Clear Channel tolerate my style of broadcasting?  When
will Mark Mays announce a zero-tolerance policy against the likes of me and my
standards?  When will "href="http://www.greaseman.org/wp_19970515.html" target="_blank">Greaseman"
be heard in our market?

Is this really news?

While the movie¹ (and I know you know to
which I'm referring) and gay marriage² dominate
the headlines, what isn't being covered?  Mel Gibson was apparently try to
make a great movie, and I think he managed to do that.  ¹Opponents
of the film sound as though they want to hear themselves talk, and those who
favor it are quite passionate in their remarks.  ²Regarding
Bush's assertion that a constitutional amendment is needed, the Federal
Government needs to get a life.  Now can the media move on and begin
covering the news?