Time for the media to find something new to talk about...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101620.html

Even Howard Wolfson is on board. I guess there goes what the media has been opining about for the last couple weeks. What will the talk about now? Hopefully not another dreamed up narrative that makes for good news but lacks much truth.

Growing up I always thought the media's job was to give citizens in this country the facts so that they could then be informed and make sure the nation was heading in the right direction. Now as I get older I realize that the media is just like any other corporation, they are there to make money. If they have to create narratives and constantly talk about half-truths to get people to watch, that's exactly what they are going to do.

I'm not sure how we could get an actual independent source of information and news in this country that is available to everyone, but it surely isn't going to come from corporate news. Most of the independent and reliable information is now coming from blogs and independent news sites on the internet. Sadly, some people still don't have regular access to this information. In this period of "best news teams ever" and "no-spin zones", it's increasingly hard to get factual information that isn't given some sort of spin before it gets to us. I think we need to demand truth and non-bias from our news stations or punish them for not doing what they are supposed to: giving us the facts.