Thus the MSM today stands condemned by its own record: by crucially important news untold, and by lies and misinformation told. Untold: the full extent of the Iran-Contra scandal, George Bush's earlier drug addiction and his "early departure" from his Air National Guard obligation, the failure of UN inspectors to find WMDs in pre-war Iraq, electronic voting irregularities and fraud in the last four national elections. Lies and misinformation told: Bill Clinton's alleged (and eventually unfounded) misdeeds in the Whitewater affair, "travelgate," "filegate," etc., Al Gore's claim to have "invented the internet," Judith Miller's New York Times reports on Saddam's alleged WMD's, the Swift-Boat smear of John Kerry.
The internet is a spontaneous public response to these failures
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