Political Irony

Why is it that TV news has time and money for crap like this, but doesn’t have either for real investigative journalism?

© Matt Wuerker People buy the media they want, consequently we all get the media we deserve. So what does that say about us? However, I think some of this problem is an artifact, left over from the days, not so very long ago, when you could trust the news media. You know, back when [...]

Roger Ailes [Fox News] has helped kill conservatism in America, by never allowing it to criticize itself. When journalism puts power above truth it isn’t, to coin a phrase, “actual journalism”. It’s propaganda. — Andrew Sullivan UPDATE: While longer than Sullivan’s quote, Bruce Bartlett has a must-read piece in American Conservative called “Revenge of the [...]

[Hat tip to Media Matters] The worst part of Fox News’ incessant yammering on about the Benghazi attack is that they have been so transparently partisan and gotten their facts so terribly wrong, that it has made it virtually impossible to have a real investigation into the death of the US Ambassador to Libya, either [...]