Giving up credibility

Great essay by Victor Davis Hanson at the Washington Times. Time for reform by the mainstream media. He is a great thinker. Logical, linear, and imbued with the kind of honesty and integrity that we could only hope for in our MSM. Alas, however, I think he's missing the main reason why the MSM won't reform anytime soon.

In the vacuum following the destruction of the Democrat party in the 1960s, the MSM effectively took over the Democrat party. They are not reporting on politics in this country. They are shaping the debate, complete with witnesses and special interest groups, formed on the spot if need be, to further an agenda. It's EuroSocialism and every effort, every story, every election is aimed at promoting the idea. Huge bureaucracies mishandling billions (with a b) with highly paid politicians overseeing the transformation from a self-reliant society to one to parallel the European Union model where even the voter is considered too uninformed to be allowed an opinion, let alone a vote, on the important issues of the day. This is the Age of Elitism. From the universities, unreformed since the 1960s by collusion with the media and their ideological allies, to the nightly news, the agenda is remarkably consistent. A single message. It's not utopia. It's media meglomania. Big Brother born worldwide, pushing the envelope to demonstrate their superiority, the fact that they can do it.

It has come as something of a shock to them that this hegemony is now being challenged. But the fact is that reform is no where on the horizon. They can't. They are what they are: Big Brother wannabes who would be thrilled if half the population of the planet would just disappear and let them get on with their schemes and plans and their puppets like Kofi Annan and their morally bankrupt institutions like the Universities and the U.N. and the NGOs who clutter disasters like vultures, lured by the ripe scent of money and thrill of unaccountability. All under the unwatchful and not too benevolent eyes of the MSM.

No amount of self-congratulations, no endless awards, no feelings of victimhood can change the fact that the MSM is caught. They can either give up credibility or give up politics. Getting them out of politics isn't going to happen anytime soon. Like the old Soviet Union, they are not budging until they have destroyed every last hope of redeeming the enterprise. Never let it be said that they failed. It is the industry that lost; not them.