Abdication of Responsibility

I’ve heard this before, but I liked the way this guy talked about the media’s abdication of responsibility:

Talk of plot lines and demographics, sexiness and �water-cooler� appeal have polluted a mission that is protected by its own constitutional amendment. Celebrity journalists interview celebrity dimwits about their sex lives, while American foreign policy is left running on auto-pilot.

The hard truth is that the U.S. media left America as unprepared for these terrorist attacks as any Air Force general or CIA bureaucrat. As we dropped bombs on Iraq for 10 years running � justified or not � the U.S. media failed to report on it. Then suddenly, on Sept. 11, we think �We�re at war� when in fact there hasn�t been a day since the Gulf War ended when an American aircraft hasn�t locked onto a target with a missile or bomb. We were at war, it�s just that the media didn�t think it was interesting enough to tell you about it.

That�s our lesson to learn.