Qui: State media; Non: Internet activists :: Instapundit

If voters know mainstream media is captive to the state, don't they discount what the state media has to say?

Also, it seems to be taken the state-run television is there to be the mouthpiece of the government in power. What sort of journalists are attracted to this sort of enterprise? Imagine the reaction if Bush gave orders to Jim Lehrer on what to say.

Europe. Home to the Enlightenment. And that also brought you the Crusades, the Dark Ages, the Inquisition, Nazism & c.

Reminds me of this line from Instapundit yesterday: "Tom Wolfe once said that Fascism is forever descending on the United States, but that somehow it always lands on Europe."