Two-Faced media, keeping "secrets" from us, is DANGEROUS.

[SoCalDem]

All day long there has been a steady stream of wannabee Woodwards & Bernsteins clogging up the airwaves & the "toooobs"..All of them are gleefully regaling us with their "tales from the trail", and every one of them is telling us how close we may have come to a NATIONAL ELECTORAL DISASTER....

and yet EVERY ONE OF THEM put Country LAST.

The very fact that they ALL knew how desperately lacking the Mccain campaign was, and they kept their big mouths shut, is downright frightening.

They were willing to throw us ALL under the bus, so they could continue access, and could write their "juicy tell all stories" after the election...WHEN IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TOO LATE..

Now for the REALLY scary part.. IF McCain had managed to pull off his "miracle", and managed to "win", would we EVER have even heard any of these stories?

We could have ended up with these two FOOLS running the whole show, and a media, too timid by then to risk being shunned, to ever tell the real story.

I know that when media is EMBEDDED with the military , we get "schlocky, feel-good" stories, so they can stay with the unit, and this is much the same, only it's potentially an embed with the Commander-in-Chief, and the stakes are infinitely higher, and more risky.

This brand of "journalism" is the same as the one that brought us the Iraq War, and the Bush administration.

In the future I would like to see journalists REFUSE to sign those "confidentiality" agreements.. Either a campaign is willing to be covered, warts & all, in REAL-TIME, or they choose secrecy, and should be ready to face the heat for doing so.

We can no longer afford to have "secret-pal" journalists who are privy to important news we SHOULD have.. Can you imagine how many votes this knowledge could have affected.

I am sure there were republicans who are appalled today, that they voted for McCain, and although they may NOT have voted for Obama, they may just have stayed home..and we might have had a few more congresspeople or senators, due to that fact.

[FarLeftRage]

1. m$m hasn't changed

they are still controlled by the copoRATe elite that does not believe in the full freedom of information.

They need to be taken down and busted up once and for all...

[gratuitous]

2. I posted this on another thread

Remember that Sarah Palin wasn't some lunatic cutout pushed forward by a fringe party. This was the vice presidential candidate for the Republican party, which was running the oldest candidate ever for a first term presidency. That alone is shameful on its face, even if McCain never really stood a chance.

But who in the media knew all this tittle-tattle about Palin while the issue was still in doubt? Who knew she would be a feeble 72-year-old man's heartbeat away from sitting in the Oval Office, and that she was such a ninny? And who knew this and didn't think it important enough to share with the American people because they'd made some cockamamie "off the record" promise to the people inside who knew? Did any of these so-called journalists press their sources to go on the record? This is really not just some cocktail party game where somebody winds up looking foolish; this is the fucking running of our country and people's lives are at stake.

Motherfuckers all. "Oh look, Sarah Palin, a complete and dangerous boob, may just get into the White House! Ho, ho, ho, if voters only knew what we know about her. Ho, ho, ho. Millions would die and billions would be affected adversely. But golly, it's just so funny to know what a fool she really is, and let her defenders go on and on, putting on ersatz outrage while we all know the truth."

Har de fucking har.

[blm]

5. Like who at NYT knew Bush would illegally tap Americans in his SECOND TERM? Those who KNEW he was

doing it in his FIRST TERM and decided to hold off on the story till AFTER the election.

[NV Whino]

3. It's time for journalists to stand up and be journalists again.

[slampoet]

6. How about they become REAL AMERICANS, instead of leaches who use this great land for a paycheck.

[mhatrw]

4. Yep. n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

7. R-A-T-I-N-G-$! The media did everything they could to make a race out of a landslide..

[ColbertWatcher]

8. I was thinking about that.

Their allegiance is obviously not to truth or facts.

And, yes, I get the irony of someone like me saying something like that