The 'Media Party' is over: A political party is dying before our eyes ? and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the "mainstream media," which is being destroyed by the opposition (or worse, the casual disdain) of George Bush's Republican Party; by competition from other news outlets (led by the internet and Fox's canny Roger Ailes); and by its own fraying journalistic standards. At the height of its power, the AMMP (the American Mainstream Media Party) helped validate the civil rights movement, end a war and oust a power-mad president. But all that is ancient history. [...]
In this situation, the last thing the AMMP needed was to aim wildly at the president ? and not only miss, but be seen as having a political motivation in attacking in the first place. Were Dan Rather and Mary Mapes after the truth or victory when they broadcast their egregiously sloppy story about Bush's National Guard Service? The moment it made air it began to fall apart, and eventually was shredded by factions within the AMMP itself, conservative national outlets and by the new opposition party that is emerging: The Blogger Nation. It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the "media" has any credibility.
[a propósito, ler Why CBS Should Have Been Smarter e o Report on the Independent Review Panel on the September 8, 2004 "60 Minutes" Wednesday Segment "For the Record" Concerning President Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service]
