Death to the old media! The sooner the Old Gray Lady lays down and they close the casket lid on that paper the better! I dare to dream.....
The changing of guard (Rather, Koppel, Jennings, Brokaw...) comes at a "bad time" for libs. They didn't get one final victory before leaving office.
No election in 2004 (when they pulled out all the stops to win).
No retreat from Iraq.
The turning point of support for the war will forever be linked to the media's exploitation of Abu Ghraib. It was done so to toss President Bush out of office and Republicans out of power. Such was the haste to spread the bad news that the Boston Globe even published long discredited porn site photos as "evidence" of abuse. A British paper was also caught publishing fabricated images of a British soldier urinating on a "prisoner".
News of these (hoaxed) images and the media's fanning the flames of hate with the original ones led directly to the decapitation of Nick Berg. And yes I fully blame the media for that one.
Nick Berg had been kidnapped before the "scandal" was news. Numerous Americans had been. One had even escaped prior to Berg's murder. The hostages became a liability. The media opened the door to a publicity stunt for the Isalmonazis.