http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky3/Whatever happened to respect for the truth? Whatever happened to journalistic standards? Has money and sensationalism so corrupted our major media that evidence,corroberation and investigative effort are no longer necessary to air or print a "story?"hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky3/47600Recently Brit Hume of Fox News tried to compare the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq to the deaths of Americans in California and by using statistical sleight of hand he concluded that the death rate in California was higher than that for Americans in Iraq. Of course, he left something out that...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky3/20679With total disregard for the wishes of the American people, the Federal Trade Commission (FCC) yesterday authorized the conglomeratization of the American media. Now it used to be thought that the airwaves were owned by the public and were to be used for the benefit of the public, but according...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky3/12139The American media has undergone a major transformation in the last few decades. Whereas, there were hundreds of radio and TV stations and outlets in the 1970s, today the TV networks are virtually all controlled by six large corporations (GE, Viacom, Disney, Westinghouse, Fox & AOL/Time/Warner...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/spyinthesky3/8292If you have ever read the book, "All The President's Men," or seen the movie, you would know that the reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, had to provide at least two sources or corroberation for every claim they made in their stories in the Washington Post back in the 1970s. This was demanding...