If you hate partisan politics, then the Political Anarchist will do it's best to dispel all those political myths that we all hate and hold politicians and (especially) pundits feet to the fire.
To welcome everyone, we will begin what will be a compiled list of laws and postulates, similar to that list of tripe Limbaugh dreamt up at one time, except that ours will have a basis in truth and common sense.
Media Law #1:
The Media Is Neither Liberal, Nor Conservative. They Are Simply Obedient.
Sorry to break it to those of you who spend hours listening to radio and reading newspapers just to find examples of bias, as if anyone was stupid enough to pay you for such nonsense, but all mass media are controlled by their handlers. Investigative Reporting (b. 1760 - d. 1996) was a friend of ours, but since it's death, networks and newspapers don't wish to break stories, they simply do what they are told. The best example in recent memory was the CBS-Dan Rather situation, when Les Moonves was told to bury the Niger yellow cake story and was delivered a juicy document (and an infamously forged one), to persuade him. Like all great media moguls before him, Les OBEYED and did what he was told.
Now a recent article by Byron Calame at the New York Times show that the newspaper has several meetings with White House officials, including with George Bush himself, before deciding to bury a significant domestic wiretapping story until after the 2004 election. Again, not printing a story for it's value regardless of timing, but holding onto it because that is what Bill Keller and the New York Times were told to do.
If you are wondering about the death date for investigative reporting, that is the year the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and New York Times, under marching orders, launched a non-investigative and destructive attack on Gary Webb...and his paper, the San Jose Mercury News, refused to back him. So in 1996 is the year journalism officially died.
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