Anyone who works in media (as I do), and spent time working at or near news divisions (as I have in the past) would agree 100% that the current crop of journalists are basically D students who went into journalism because they didn't have anything else to do with their lives.
They are lazy, lack inquisitiveness, and basically stupid. Yet they are just as quick to lay their own faults off on others who they regard as "inferior" to their elite status as the Fourth Estate. I know of several journalists who, lacking in any skills that would assist them in earning a living reporting, decided that politics was a better career path. Indeed, it seems to be true that politicians are really a step below journalists. Who, as it happens, are a step below used car salesmen, and 2 steps below lawyers.

Journalists wouldn't know a decent story if it bit their ass, as the Edwards situation proves. This isn't the first time an "inaccurate tabloid" known as the National Enquirer has scooped the MSM.

As for anyone who says the "fact" that Bush has gotten away with something because the MSM has these traits should be ashamed of themselves. For one reason only - the same people (yes, you and people like you Cyborg77) who make outlandish claims like this are the same people who will read a ridiculous article in the NYTimes and start waving it around like it's pure fact and incontrovertible. Yet the source of stories of this nature - journalists - have proven themselves unworthy of any respect. Every time I read any article in the NYTimes or other leading newspapers, I tend to chuckle and toss it aside. Bush's failings aside, EVERY president in the last 47 years has gotten away with this kind of behavior in their press relations because the journalists play a variety of games. "It's unworthy of being covered" coontil it is). "It couldn't be true" coontil it is proven). "I was misled" (they weren't). "I was lied to" (please...this is getting old).

Journalists have let everything pass them by for a variety of reasons, and when the stories break, they play catch up with "well, if I could've corroborated" or "it was unseemly" retorts, followed by "but we knew about it all along" BS.

Right.

Never believe what you hear from any MSM source. The sad part is partisan outlets ARE the main source of information. They SHOULDN'T be, but they are. While these outlets are notoriously inaccurate rumormongers, they do have the tenacity and desire to crack good stories that are meaningful. I don't happen to put much stock in them as reliable, which is why The Daily Kos is nothing more than laughable, but they are a good source to begin questioning things.

Me? I'm off to buy some groceries and peruse the National Enquirer. At least they know where to go find their stories. Inaccurate? Perhaps at times. But not usually, and ALWAYS entertaining (something CNN, Fox, ABC and NBC all fail at. CBS is entertaining because Katie Couric was so sad).