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Why is it remarkable?  The principal news media have found a large, willing audience for their alternative realities.  It’s not necessary to wander over to the Kos to find that audience.  Representatives are intentionally posting the same distortions and fabrications on PLF daily.

The media malpractice is playing out in the Wright issue.
Jack Ryan was a credible Republican seeking the US Senate nomination at the same time Barack was running. It was the Chicago Tribune who relentlessly went after Jack Ryan’s divorce papers through FOA.  It was revealed that he had attended sex clubs with his WIFE, and was forced to drop out of the race. Now it is Presidential primary season.  It is inexplicable that these same “curious journalists”, who live in the Chicago area where Barack resides and worships, could not have known about this explosive Wright issue. They ignored it, and by doing so, helped catapult Barack into front-runner status.  Now he is damaged goods who will not win the general election, but must be given the nomination to avoid a perception of racism by the DNC.  Liberal media malpractice is a double edged sword for Republicans. However in this case, had the Wright story come out before Iowa, the Democrat Party would not be in the chaos it is in now.

Don’t worry, someone will write a book examining the utter corruption of the media over the past five years. Sad to say, it won’t mean anything until it’s written by a historian who hasn’t even been born yet. Today’s historians, like today’s media, still can’t forgive Bush for winning in 2000; they can’t seem to fathom that if Gore had prevailed in court he would have in fact been “appointed” by TWO Supreme Courts, not just one. Amd they seem to forget that Gore would have won the Presidency without needing Florida if he had simply won his own home state. He couldn’t even do that much.

On the media’s BDS-infested planet, recorded history didn’t begin until Bush took office in January of 2001. All of the Iraq WMDs they had reported on in the late 1990s, for example, were simply flushed down the rabbit hole, as were Saddam’s ties to al Qaeda.

Goebbels would be proud of all of them.

I think someone needs to do more than “write a book about it.”

Dangerous ideas—and dangerously warped reporting—have dangerous consequences.  The compromised MSM we now have is a public menace.

"someone should write a book about it.”

Best one I’ve read is:

Bush’s War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age (Communication, Media, and Politics) by Jim A. Kuypers (Paperback - Oct 28, 2006)

This is a scholarly approach that compares the text of a speech to reporting of that speech in major media outlets, showing point by point the bias and misreporting.

Of course, Powerline readers already know that because c-span.org and http://www.whitehouse.gov/podcasts/ have extensive libraries of text, audio and video. I put a few hours of speeches on an ipod for long drives or airplane trips- keeps me current for work, and really is an antidote for the misrepresentations in the press.