The media should report the news. It has failed to find out the truth about the news, having relied on what the Administration chooses to report rather than to do good, investigative reports on their own. Most of the pundits I have observed on the major news channels are opinion makers, not investigators who do any mount of work to ferret out problems. Rather, they regurgitate what they have been told. You only have to do a bit of channel surfing to hear the exact same interpretation on each channel when something happens that the public is permitted to learn anything about.
It is important that we get better coverage on news channels of things that happen in the Congress and Senate. Committees should be better synthesized as to results rather than the limited amount of time people can spend covering C-SPANs by themselves. A most interesting bit has been provided in this video clip. We suspect these things go on but our suspicions cannot go very far without facts to which the average person has no access.
Yesterday, I was unable to get any major news other than the death of Tim Russert. While Mr. Russert deserves the highest praise, his death is not the most critical event while so many others are dying due to lack of funds for medicines and care, poor treatment to wounded veterans, the hardships of poverty for so many of our citizens who have lost homes, jobs, life savings, family bread winners in the war. The media moguls and producers need to look quickly into their mirrors. Comedians and YouTube are surpassing them in viewings because they are learning more from those sources than the main stream media provides.
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