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Reporters don't matter as much as editors. Most reporters will do what they're told - by their editors. Winning the "media battle" requires a spring cleaning of the editorial desks, getting rid of the last 40 years of incest, nepotism, and blatant self-promotion that has given us the current crop of "opinion makers". (I originally wrote "changing of the guard" but in retrospect that's what's gotten us where we are today - see previous comment on incest, nepotism, and blatant self-promotion; all symptoms of an inbred palace guard, e.g. the self-appointed intellectual elite of the current MSM - a cancer festering since early VN.) I would be happy to see a generation of editors who actually understood the 1st Ammendment and acknowledged the difference between liberty and liscense; who wouldn't engage in wholesale treason for self-interest. Given human nature it's probably too much to expect them to differentiate between news and op-ed. The current crop seems to have a self-imposed mandate to "shape public perceptions" for the "greater good". Thank God for the "Blogsphere" and other non-traditional media outlets. I have no problem understanding the MSM's resentment of the proliferation of alternative media and the consequent diminution of their influence. I just can't sympathize. My .02 - Peregrino
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