Can we trust the Media?

[LostInSpace]

Oh boy here we go again USA Today admits reporter plagiarized. If this keeps happening, how can we trust anything we read? Can the liberal media still cast stones at republicans and conservatives? And before anyone brings this up I'll ask it now to save ya the time and trouble: or is this a republican/conservative plot to discredit the liberal media? In other words, are republicans/conservatives planting these guys in there to do just this?

[Wolferz]

S&B strikes again

Ordered Chaos, only because they ordered it.

[Steve Schacher]

I don't know what this guy's problem was, unlike the Blair incident where institutional pressures at the New York Times elevated him beyond his abilities and experience level.

Personally, I think the media doesn't need moles to discredit them; they're doing a fine job all by themselves. The internet is allowing the interested reader to seek news elsewhere, and that allows the reader to notice what is not being covered here vs. what is being covered by the European and Asian press. That was recently evident with the way the London press carried stories about the American press quietly researching a Kerry affair with an intern. The American press blockaded that story.

I think the Iraq war also opened many people's eyes due to the imbedded reporting vs. what the news anchors reported. It became a case of "Who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes?"