Re:An important debating point (Score 2, Insightful)

The problem relates to the nature of our society. Most people have too many worries in their own microcosm to care about what Halliburton sold to Iran. People who are freelance journalists have to leave all that behind to do so. They are also passionate in what they do, and can be to a fault. It's no secret that the media is censored. However, it's censored for a reason. Just as so many real and terrible stories are censored, just as many terrible stories are made up and put out there on internet news sites. How many people are going to spend time debunking an internet news site that gets maybe a hundred hits a day? Real, terrible stories are put out there every day. How many of you heard the report from 5/25 that stated Bush was well-informed about the dangers of invading Iraq and that Al-Qaeda's next strategy would simply be to focus on Afghanistan while we're spread too thin in Baghdad? That was on a public radio station that has traffic updates every eight minutes at rush hour -- in other words, heard by thousands of people in my area on their way home. Was there a huge outcry? No, in fact, I just spent far too much time hearing about Rosie O'Donnell's exit from the view. Who gives a shit? Like it or not, this is the fault of you, me, and every other schmuck who didn't fight for freedom of the press. And that's regardless of whether one story on that page is true.