The years of the Bush presidency will be remembered as a time when American media, for the most part, practiced stenography to power --and when once-great newspapers became little more than what the reformers of another time referred to as "the kept press."
John Nichols, The Nation, June 18th, 2005. LINK. Also at Yahoo.
The DSM ain't going away because each of us knows that s/he has a moral obligation to keep it alive.
This is me doing my part here today, the way we've been forced to do it, the way wingnuts did it when Bill Clinton's penis suddenly became a matter of national security, the way, it seems, things must be done in a nation where black is white and white is black.
Nichols calls it like it is: a contemporary media crisis. The solution is for us, members of the new "Fifth Estate," to hold fast to our priorities and, in doing so, allow them to ripple outward into the world. And it is absolutely okay for us to have those priorities.
The MSM obviously has theirs.