"It's Roger Ailes' and Dubya's Fault"

Regarding the MSM, you can love them or hate them, but the worst thing you can do is disregard them. To their chagrin, ever more people are disregarding them, because of their credibility problem and fading influence.

Howard Fineman has a good piece, 'Media Party' is Over describing Dan Rather as being merely the top of the iceberg:

WASHINGTON - 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.

"Riding high in April, shutdown in May" as Sinatra may have observed about the Old Media. It really must be painful that they just aren't needed anymore. Oh, it's always good to have another opinion to compare against the facts, but opinion is just how most of the viewing/listening audience regard the Old Media.

This didn't happen overnight. It's been happening for almost 20 years. The Old Media may never be able to admit the real problem, (which is analogous to what is happening to the democrat party...blaming others for their failures) which only compounds their problem. Their problems are so obvious that it seems silly to enumerate them.

Roger Ailes (read, FoxNews) is probably ecstatic to accept responsibility for the demise of the MSM, and for them to credit Ailes only empowers him. But they arrogantly will not or cannot admit to their biases, and that is their primary problem. Their nemeses, talk radio (read, Rush), the internet and Fox News, aren't afraid to admit their biases, while the MSM to this day insists it is unbiased.

Does someone need to tell them we live in a different, better connected, more informed, less naive world? It's not complicated.

Meanwhile: NewsMax is reporting that CBS News continues to slide in the ratings.

Adding insult to injury: In one of his radio promo's Rush reminds us that "there is no 'BS' in EIB", referring to his Excellence In Broadcasting Network. Heh heh heh!