Eric Boehlert has a good piece in Salon today asking why it took thousands (tens of thousands?) of dead civilians for the media to wake up and start doing its job again. It’s a really good question, and amidst the congratulatory back-patting we’ve been giving to the media for doing a good job on this one, we really need to bear in mind that if they had done a halfway decent job asking the tough questions about the Iraq War, the outing of Valerie Plame (before the election), and lots of other issues, there very well might not be those thousands of dead civilians in the first place.
Note to Dems: If you ever manage to get your act together and, in what would at this point be nothing less than miraculous, regain control of Congress, I highly suggest you look into reinstating that little thing called the Fairness Doctrine, that Bush’s political granddaddy Reagan did away with back when he was laying the groundwork for the disastrous state in which we currently find ourselves.
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