Power Line on promotion of high-risk mortgage lending as product of Democrat, not Republican, ideology and maneuvering, quoting a fellow calling for “each reporter and editor . . . insisting on telling the truth” in the matter:
But the mainstream media–which is to say, most reporters and editors who work for “mainstream” news organizations–have no honor and are not interested in truth. They are, as Card says, “the public relations machine of the Democratic Party.”
It’s time to accept that fact and move on. Our existing news organizations–the New York Times, the Associated Press, NBC, CNN, CBS, and so on–can’t be reformed, they can only be ignored.
It is time for conservatives, libertarians, moderates, and normal citizens who are interested in straightforward reporting of the news to build their own news organizations in competition with the corrupt ones that now exist.
Ignoring is the best policy, accompanied by journalistic entrepreneurship.
Blithe Spirit 