Dawn of the Geeks

Back in the day the main stream news would report and people would discuss amongst themselves. If there were glaring errors in the reporting or some kind of blatent bias, pockets of people would know about it. Now with blogs, when the MSM screws up, millions of people know about it and sometimes it gets back to the more mainstream news outlets such as Investor’s Business Daily.

I first saw Newsweek’s “US Flag in the Trash” cover on Little Green Footballs. Most Americans have never seen it because the cover was for the Japanese version of the magazine. Well IBD picked up the story and added additional insight to the blatent bias of the MSM that Liberals like to pretend doesn’t exist:

Stories that make our enemies look bad are treated differently. Witness the brouhaha over photos of Saddam Hussein in his undies. NBC’s “Today” show led off one morning with an interview with one of the tyrant’s lawyers and later had host Matt Laurer probing if the Pentagon thought this was a violation of the Geneva Convention. Yet when in mid-April new Saddam-era mass graves were discovered in southern Iraq, including one believed to hold as many as 5,000 corpses, NBC didn’t cover that story.

Liberals like to think that bias is injecting one’s opinion into the story. Anderson Cooper flat out stated that on the Daily Show and I’ve had zero interest to watch CNN since. He implied that CNN isn’t biased like Fox News because CNN doesn’t have anchors that state their opinion about things they report. What AC is being intellectually dishonest about is that bias is also what you choose to report and what you choose not to report. NBC and most mainstream outlets choose not to report anything that might look the Bush administration look good and focus on finding or even inventing stories that make it look bad. That’s bias.

The net result of all this rampant story invention and blatent bias is the reduction of the relavency of the MSM. Power Line is keeping on top of the latest developments that seem to suggest that Saddam did indeed have strong ties to al-Queda. Documents are comming out of Iraq supporting Bush’s assertion at the start of the war.

The number two of the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, visited Iraq under a false name in September 1999 to take part in the ninth Popular Islamic Congress, former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi has revealed to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. In an interview, Allawi made public information discovered by the Iraqi secret service in the archives of the Saddam Hussein regime, which sheds light on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the Islamic terrorist network. He also said that both al-Zawahiri and Jordanian militant al-Zarqawi probably entered Iraq in the same period.

You won’t find these stories on the MSM, and that’s exactly why you won’t find many TVs turned on to the MSM either.