1. “The Federal Trade Commission is threatening to use antitrust and copyright laws to shut down the New Media – and save “mainstream” journalism
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This ominous development ought to scare the pants off of anyone concerned with the maintenance of a free society – and the continued existence of dissent in an increasingly conformist profession where “journalists” are often reduced to the status of mere stenographers as they eagerly communicate to the masses the words, wishes, wit, and wisdom of government officials.
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Well, I’m just guessing, but maybe “consumers” – i.e., readers – weren’t at all happy with the level and nature of the coverage provided by the Old Journalism. Maybe they began to distrust and finally abandon completely all those “news” organizations that reported with a straight face the Bush administration’s claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Maybe the social and political collusion that goes on in Washington between government officials and “journalists” led them to distrust the latter as much as they disdain the former. It hardly matters that these consumers don’t need or want “protection” from bloggers and non-“mainstream” news sources – but you can bet your bottom dollar they’re going to get it anyway. After all, the Nanny State knows best: we’re from the government, and we’re here to help…
Yeah, right!
The “mainstream” media is, by definition, the instrument and servant of the state. The Washington Post, for example, doesn’t challenge the conventional wisdom; rather, it lives to enforce it as accepted fact. And when the “facts” turn out to be otherwise, as in the case of Iraq’s WMDs – well, then, “Oops! That’s what everybody thought!”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/08/25/the-coming-media-bailout/
2. So much for change:
“Obama Bows to Israel Over Settlements, Iran”
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/08/25/obama-bows-to-israel-over-settlements-iran/
3. “CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney Claims”
http://washingtonindependent.com/56344/cia-documents-provide-little-cover-for-cheney-claims
4. “CIA Involvement: Police chief: Lockerbie evidence was faked
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? 
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