Another Product Failure from Shopko

Jumbo Laundry bags. These bags appear to be made of Nylon, but I suspect they are made of polyester instead. They failed immediately when I started filling them with my laundry.

They were made in China "exclusively" for a company called JMK Sales in Bridgeview, Illinois 60455. I Googled the company but only found a manufacturer for Illinois Industrial Tool, Inc. which does not appear to have anything to do with knit laundry bags.

They were on sale.

The old news media is self-destructing.

Bloggers! Your day is arriving sooner than you may think. The old main-stream news media is self-destructing.

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.