The American Media Sucks

Daily Howler John ONeill lied in Georges face. He knew George was weak and unprepared


A friend of mine directed me to this site the other day, and I think it is a highly valuable resource when trying to sort through the schlock that our media calls news.

I love this site because it provides the analysis and plays the watch dog role that the mainstream media dismally fails to do. As you can see, all of the tough talking talk show hosts who are supposed to provide in depth analysis are more often than not woefully unprepared.

Their comments the other day (located somewhere in the archives) about the post article I linked to were especially interesting. They acknowledge that the post did provide some new information, but also indicate that by sticking it at the end of a 4100 word article, most readers never actually got to that part. More importantly though, this serves the function of lending undue authority and acceptance to the completely irroneous claims made by the SVT.

Our media is awful, and the news it reports is overwhelming crap. Except for the Daily Show (on Comedy Central) I cannot think of a mainstream news show that properly serves in the sacred Watchdog role attributed to the media. This site however does an excellent job of pointing out the flaws of the news we are getting.