BIG BROTHER THE JOURNALIST

For God's sake someone has to put a leash on the fucking media. They've gone beserk. If it weren't for the internet, you'd think Iraq will be the birthplace of the apocolypse. Al Queda and the Ba'athists forming an alliances, birds and bees copulating (or was it the lion and the lamb?), I forget. Anyway, someone has to rein them in before they start reporting that we actually lost the war. If you don't like the president, fine. Write an op-ed piece, or a blog, or on your car window in shoe polish, but for the love of neutrality, STOP PASSING OPINIONS OFF AS JOURNALISM. I'm too tired to cite examples, but I will predict the future. The media is going the chew like goats on the supposed leak of the identity of the undercover CIA agent until the name of that agent becomes as synonymous in annoyance as Monica Lewinsky's. The network news was grinding so hard into the Bush administration, that it didn't mention that it was a journalist who published the identity of that agent. To anyone who starts in on freedom of the press, just who's interest was that journalist serving by revealing that agent's identity? Could it have waited? I think so. People are just as likely to believe a reputable journalist quoting an unnamed source as they would a named one. They shouldn't, but they do. Anyway, I lay the blame of that agent's exposition squarely on the media who has jumped on the president's falling numbers like whores on money.