While not having read the entire article as well, I found this interesting, and I certainly agree w/ blankflag. However, what age group do you define as "in between"?

The article isn't even really about the media lying to people, but with how out of touch the media is with the average person: how they ask all the wrong questions of politicians; how they focus on the politics and not the policy; and just how lazy they're becoming.

I mean, isn't it odd that you know a Senator's opinion on a matter because of a politico debate on the news, or through soundbites rather than from the senator himself? Or that during campaigns they ask - "Are you worried about x's standings in the poles?" or "How are you going to beat y?" rather than asking what that politician would actually do in office?

70 years ago, the news corps knew roosevelt used a wheelchair. Did they publish a story? 50 years ago I bet someone knew about Kennedy's affairs, but did they blow it up to the proportions that they did with Clinton?

The media has lost any shred of legitimacy or dignity in pursuit of ratings. Reading the first segment about the talkshow with military officials should be evidence enough.

"just how lazy they're becoming." Ever hear a commentator play a series of media soundbites about a news story or politicians...I think I heard a comedian do this recently, and I've heard 'conservative news personalities" do this: They'll grab a soundbite from from all the mainstream media on a given topic, including national broadcast, cable news, and local news outlets, and you find them *all* using the *exact* same language....like, the bulletin when out from news (governmnet?) central, and all the "reporters" are just reading. A recent example was "Obama's Charm Offensive"....uh, there was nothing charming about Obama recently, and yet I heard a montage of probably 30 different media sources using the exact same statement about Obama's "Charm offensive". Yes....this is hideously lazy "reporting"....it isn't reporting at all.

Back in the day, "60 Minutes" reporters were *feared*. If they showed up at your door, there was trouble. Politicians certainly didn't beg for an exclusive interview with them....today? Today, Democrats don't fear any media outlet except Fox News, and Republicans won't talk to any outlet except Fox News (with a few exceptions). The media have forsaken their constitutional mandate to be watch-guards over the government, and instead have chosen to be their kindly mouthpieces, for fear of losing the first inside scoop at the next catastrophe.