More Media Malpractice

ABC news devoted itself yesterday to some shameless pimping for Obama's health care plan. The shills at NBC are throwing their weight behind "green" advocacy but fail to inform the public about the billions their parent company GE could make if cap and trade legislation is passed. CBS news is simply unwatchable with adoration abundant for Obama. Only Fox is "fair and balanced" but seems downright rightist in comparison to all the propaganda being spewed by the other networks. Ratings reflect the fact that the public sees these mainstream media organizations as the "little Goebbels" they are, to borrow a turn of phrase from America-hating former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. The decline in viewership of the three traditional networks will continue until they, like the folding newspapers who are bleeding readership to the point of shutting down or reverting to a limited publishing schedule or a web-only presence, stop working against the interests of the consumers of news. You can offend your customer only so much before they abandon you forever (unless you are a government, in which case you can simply turn your citizens into prisoners-see Iran or North Korea).