re: #7 harlequinade

Also Gulf War made us distrust anything, so when someone came along and posted to our particular vanity, we swallowed it.

I respect what you say but disagree. The Vietnam War and Watergate, at least for my generation, had long since made us distrust our government. But most of us thought we could still rely on a free press to expose the crooked fuckers. All the President’s Men was a movie, and therefore highly dramatized, but still the fact is that a couple of guys at the Washington Post (and even at the New York Times, hard as it may be to believe nowadays) burned some shoe leather and pounded on typewriters and brought down a whole gang of immensely powerful crooks.

I’m not sure exactly where it changed, maybe when CBS News became part of the entertainment division, maybe during the Whitewater nonsense, but certainly with the invasion of Iraq, when the entire “journalistic” apparatus essentially became a machine to sell ads while waving flags and worshipping “heroes.” Goebbels would have eaten his heart out.

The farther along the road I wander, the more I think that TV eventually fucks up everything it touches.