AMERICA'S YELLOW PRESS

News room cut back, journalists who are lazy and intellectual coward.
Not anything thing.


http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind141.html

"What lies behind the decline in the quality of American re****ting?
Cutbacks in the size of newsrooms are part of the answer. As the
electronic image replaces the printed word, newspapers are dying. To
those who know that perceiving reality requires more than shadows on
the cave wall, that is bad news.

Lazy re****ters are another part of the answer. It is easy to print the
bulletins. Re****ters have always been lazy, but now their editors let
them get away with it. Not too many decades ago, any re****ter who
single-sourced a story would have been sent back on the street to get
more sources, with a richness of invective editors seldom lacked.

But the biggest reason, I suspect, is intellectual cowardice. After
the defeat in Vietnam, many sup****ters of the war blamed the press for
our failure. By printing the bad news, the press supposedly undermined
popular sup****t for the war and thereby caused our defeat. It's
poppycock, of course. The Vietnam War was lost early in the game when
MACV, at the demand of General William Depuy, ordered an end to
efforts to control the populated coastal lowlands in favor of fighting
formal battles against enemy main force units in the highlands. Those
units were sent there as bait, which MACV took.

But the American press was scarred by the accusations. Now, it is
afraid to be accused of "not sup****ting the troops" if it does
anything but print the bulletins. So the American public gets the
mushroom treatment, and two failed wars continue ad infinitum. When
the roof falls in both in Iraq and in Afghanistan, the shock will be
considerable. America's yellow press will deserve no small share of
the blame."