When is the Fourth Estate going to STOP following EXTREME idiots?

One of the first lessons that I learned as a high school debater was
the importance of quoting a reliable resource with proper references
to validate the information and properly credit it's author. In the
past decades we have seen the rise of Fox News, a channel owned by
News Corp, the company owned by Rupert Murdoch a former Australia famous for his tabloids like The Globe and New York Post.

A viewer to this network now views a "Brave NEW World" of news
commentators who have taken the place of the reliable journalists.
A setting where their comments are annotated with "Some people say" without
a word of WHO these people are or if they are really the voice of authority
that the "commentator" appears to intimate with their smug pronouncements.
I catch myself scoffing and basically denouncing anything that they say as insignificant. I only wish that the other more reliable sources like CNN would do the same.

We recently saw people including the NAACP pile on Shirley Sherrod
when Fox chose to treat her as a racist based on a censored tape
from a well known charlatan. The rest of the media followed like
puppies behind their mothers! This week as the extreme right has
turned the building of a community center and mosque in a long
vacant building by a moderate Muslim cleric has been allowed to
descend into a macabre follow the leader once again to the bottom
of the stack of humanity. This man is a GOOD GUY! COME ON! But
we have people who are viewed as being better than Fox once again
playing follow the leader. Americans deserve better. The main stream
gets a resounding F on this one too. No imagination and they are
using forged slanted Cliff's Notes. Not performance we prefer to see.

The Fourth Estate gets an F this week

This week the biggest non-story has become the biggest
fiasco for some time.All week Fox News and right wing radio,
have been handing out the pitch fork and torches because about four
to five blocks away from Ground Zero they are building a
Community Center in an old unoccupied Burlington Coat
Factory! To hear Newt Gingrich, you would think it was as
bad as a Nazis putting up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum
in Washington to Rush Limbaugh it was like building a Hindu
temple near Pearl Harbor because he apparently didn't realize
that Japanese People are Shinto! Must be that right wing radio
isn't keeping him in his Oxycontin. They get a D.

So in a brief recap- Fox apparently can't use Mapquest,can't tell
the difference between a sacred ground and inexpensive retail
clothing chain and they can't tell Shinto from Shineola. Of course
Caribou Barbies had her comments about how the President who
handily beat her and John McCain two years ago, was sticking a knife
in the heart of America because he's letting this happen,....who the
HELL does this guy think he is? Haven't we told him enough that he
is a socialistic totalitarian despot? Good thing she has a book coming
out soon to keep us from thinking about real problems like unemployment,
tax cuts and wars that keep us broke.

Instead of sticking to making things up this week, inspite of Rupert's
protestations that they are a REAL journalistic endeavor, It has been
noted that they are taking advantage of the work of their favorite
"Activist Justices of the Supreme Count" by contributing a million
dollars via News Corp to the Republican Governors Association too!
They are BETTING on the "news" that they do? Pete Rose got screwed
if this is allowed. The whole POINT of a "Fourth Estate" is that as a
distant disinterested party that they have the integrity to call the
other estates out when they screw up. This negates the whole thought!

This could take the whole thought right to the sub basement of that
old Burlington Coat Factory forever. That gives Rupert and his pals at
Cluster Fox a resounding ZERO! Goebbels would be so prou