Slay the Dinosaur

The moribund media, hidebound by ideological constraint, is bleeding viewers and readers as FOX News, conservative talk radio, and web sites like Breitbart and Drudge all enjoy banner years. No longer able to credibly deny their liberal bias, the old line leftist outlets are in some cases literally going bankrupt, only appropriate as the agenda they flog is a bankrupt one. They are the handmaidens of Obama and discerning consumers are fleeing their lies in droves. Fundamentally, consumers of news do not want their common sense and most deeply held values consistently mocked and insulted. I have a recipe for saving the archaic purveyors of lie and myth and Red agenda, but why would I want to sustain propagandists? They will not follow the suggestion anyway- so here goes: Abandon the quest for social justice and crusader of the left you learned in journalism school and remember who, what, when, why, and how; question the current leader the way you interrogated Bush; do not give people in power who think like you a free pass, and most important- pursue truth. Of course, there are other institutional factors such as Rupert Murdoch's much publicized and oft-commented upon battles with unions, but when "stop the presses" is heard for the final time and the main stream media is buried in the grave of its own making, I will know the wound was self-inflicted.