Rove and the Sharks in the Water!

The MSM is in a feeding frenzy again. This time they’re after the scalp of Karl Rove.

The Mainstream Media, doing the bidding of the Democrat Party, is about to make fools of themselves… again!

Rove doesn’t need me to defend him so. I won’t. As a matter of fact… no pun intended… the facts are… that no law was broken. The MSM knows it, but they continue this witch-hunt in hopes of causing damage to President Bush.

Until such time as someone can prove Rove broke the law, his job at the White House is secure.The continuous bellowing, and caterwauling, by the White House Press Corp only serves to solidify the public’s opinion of them… that they are a boorish, rude mob, out of touch with reality. Their self-delusional belief that the public cannot see their liberal bias is now pathological. And like an illness it has eaten away their public support. The days of the MSM being the only source of news are long gone. Everyone seems to know this, except… the MSM. The public no longer trusts the MSM. In recent years there have been entirely too many instances of “news creation”, and other, shall we say, … “problems”.

The MSM’s utter underestimation of the intellect of their consumers is monumental. Now, with the Internet available to 90% of Americans, questions concerning news reports can be answered in minutes, sometimes seconds. And that is what readers, listeners, and viewers are doing. I have a dozen, or more, news sources set up on my PC’s desktop, and RSS readers, to keep me in touch with the news of the day. The world’s library is at my fingertips, literally. Often I find that I have to go “offshore” to get an unbiased report of a political event occurring in this country. Many of the news stories I read in my local/regional, newspaper, I have already read hours, and even days, before they show up in my paper. When the news consumer adds all this up, they /we conclude that the MSM, especially in the US, has dropped their façade of non-biased reporting and come out, openly, for the Liberal/Democrat cause.

The Karl Rove incident is only the latest “trash the conservatives” campaign. It, too, is about to blow-up in their faces.

A few minutes of research, on the Internet, and one learns that Mr. Rove is not guilty of the charges leveled at him by the MSM. And, this has become a regular “fact checking” routine by those who are serious about their news.

How does an organization continue to exist in such an atmosphere of distrust? They don’t. Not for long, anyway.

Readership is down. Listenership is down, and viewers are tuning away. Many are turning to alternate sources of news… the vast majority turn to the Internet.

The MSM has so abused the first amendment that we have been predicting, for some time now, there will be curtailments of that “freedom of the press”. Already reporters are being sentenced to jail.Where is the public outcry when a reporter is jailed? There isn’t any. Why? Because the MSM has convinced its consumers that it deserves this “ill treatment” BECAUSE of its abuse of the trust placed in them. News consumers have come to resent the lack of esteem the press has for them/us and the arrogant contempt they demonstrate for the intelligence of their readers, listeners and viewers.

So now we watch as the MSM self-destructs right before our eyes.

“Longstreet”