*ahem* Of course I’m only speaking theoretically. If any drunk, armed men happen to overhear, I hope they don’t take it too seriously.

PS: Any of you unstable zealots reading this: This post is just a lame attempt at dark humor and NOT to be taken seriously! .)

There is no doubt that the biased coverage does terrible damage to the war effort. I’ve covered it for close to six years here on this site.

When I say “the actual, material effect on the campaign is minimal,” that is exactly what I mean. A story in the Washington Post about how stupid Bush’s war to steal Iraqi oil is has not direct effect on a squad of Marines in Fallujah that Tuesday. None of them read it. None of the insurgents read it. It doesn’t affect the firefight in the alley that afternoon.

The stories about the impending economic doom in America very clearly have a GREAT deal of real, measurable impact on spending habits.

Also Murdoc; on the military/media front their skewed coverage does tremendous damage in that war is a test of wills and if the American people loose the will to fight evil because of false media coverage the war will be lost regardless of battlefield victories. Moment of Truth in Iraq – by Michael Yon is a good book on this subject.

The MSM is staring at its own bankrupt future; it can make that future look, maybe even seem, better if lots of others are going bust, too. So . . . worse is better.

The MSM believes, I believe, that if it can consistently generate enough bad news for the rest of us, thus making the bad news come to pass, we may be a bit less independent and a bit more reliant on them for our own survival, because, after all, we’re all in this together. The truth could set us free. No sense taking any chance on that, not as long as a lie can keep us in thrall and buying our information from them.

And so the MSM does what it does, and somehow believes that we will not notice because, up until now, we’ve failed to hold them to account, and have given the MSM a pass on this sort of behavior, not wanting to blame the messenger even though, as it happens, the messenger in this instance is also an instigator and, therefore, blameworthy.

That’s the plan. It’s up to us to see to it that it doesn’t work . . . anymore.