Facts are nothing unless they see the light of day.

The below quote is from the News Dissector,
a MediaChannel.org newsletter.

"FRANK RICH: THE NEWS IS MISSING
"What's missing from News is the news.
On ABC, Peter Jennings devotes two hours
of prime time to playing peek-a-boo
with U.F.O. fanatics, a whorish stunt
crafted to deliver ratings, not information.
On NBC, Brian Williams is busy as all
get-out, as every promo reminds us,
"Reporting America's Story."
That story just happens to be the
relentless branding of Brian Williams
as America's anchorman - a guy just
too in love with Folks Like Us to waste
his time looking closely at, say,
anything happening in Washington.

"In this environment, it's hard to know
whom to root for. After the "60 Minutes"
fiasco, Mr. Williams's boss, the NBC
president Jeff Zucker, piously derided
CBS for its screw-up, bragging of the
reforms NBC News instituted after a
producer staged a truck explosion for
a "Dateline NBC" segment in 1992.
"Nothing like that could have gotten
through, at any level," Mr. Zucker said
of the CBS National Guard story,
"because of the safeguards we instituted
more than a decade ago." Good for him,
but it's not as if a lot else has gotten
through either. When was the last time
Stone Phillips delivered a scoop, with
real or even fake documents, on
"Dateline"? Or that NBC News pulled
off an investigative coup as stunning
as the "60 Minutes II" report on
Abu Ghraib? That, poignantly enough,
was Mr. Rather's last hurrah before he,
too, and through every fault of his own,
became a neutered newsman."

I am really getting impatient for the media
in the country to wake up and remember
who they are writing for.