Reply #4: For me, the thing about Keith Olbermann [View All]

...is that he's reaching people who may not have internet access and feel secluded in their opinion of this administration. That is certainly the desire of BushCo: to divide and disempower us, by making us feel with their propoganda and censorship that progressives/liberals are lone voices in a wilderness of ravenous right wingnuts.

I agree with everything else you wrote. The media has never been what we think it was. It's been driven by ratings and subscriptions first and the news second for a long, long time.

The likes of I. F. Stone and George Seldes were the exceptions. They wrote, edited and published their own political newsletters, never accepted advertisements (the subscriber only paid postage), and investigated what no one else would. The best political bloggers of today are following in their footsteps.