More and more, the alternative information sources are pointing at a the mistakes and complicity of the main-stream news pundits.
A recent Friday on PBS, Bill Moyers struck gold.
BILL MOYERS: What about the experts who predicted that the war would be quick and bloodless? They were terribly wrong but they're still on the air today pontificating. I mean, there seems to be no price to be paid for having been wrong about so serious an issue of life and death, war and peace.
GREG MITCHELL: You can't be wrong enough I think is what the-
JOHN WALCOTT: Well, again, they are celebrities. And, you know, Tom Cruise can make a bad movie and go on and get paid, you know, millions for the next movie. It's the same phenomenon. A name is what matters. --Bill Moyers Journal, June 6, 2008
Bill Moyers is not alone in ringing that bell. Week after week, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report regularly lampoon the news media.
The ripple effect began with Scott McClellan's new book "What Happened." Stephen Colbert explains:
If you still watch network television news or read the paper, you're doomed.
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