There is an article in yesterday's Washington Examiner by Douglas MacKinnon asking why the media is so reluctant to actually investigate the cause of our present financial meltdown. Mr. MacKinnon points out that all of the major media--print and television--have refused to have their reporters look into what role Democrats like Representative Barney Frank, and former White House economics policy makers Larry Summers and Robert Rubin, and others played in the economic meltdown. It is true that this meltdown is a rather complex thing, but I have seen it clearly explained in one place--in a video called "Burning Down The House" on You Tube. Is that where we will have to get our news in the future?
The job of the media in a Democracy (or Representative Republic) is to publish the truth and keep the politicians honest. Currently, our major media is doing neither. If that does not change, it will be the death of the major media.
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