Lacking good smoke, Xan asks the very important question: how are we to tell the Dems to reform the media? You know that I think it's very important, and if you don't, you need to rethink things.

It's plain and simple to anyone paying attention: the SCLM and even the "balanced" media are organs of the Republican party at worst, and large corporations at best. It's so horrifying to me when I have to make the case to people who don't follow the media's many blunders and lies. I have American friends who honestly believe that the media is equally critical of Democratic and Republican interests. My European friends are fearful and terrified by it; more than one has remarked on the similarities to German press under the Nazis; given that their educational system actually teaches them about the past, I tend to be unsurprised by their reactions. Read more…