perfidy

There is a conservative media. However, it exists in talk radio, cable news and the internet. Despite the advances of these realms of communication over the last decade or so, they are not the mainstream. The mainstream is newspapers and broadcast TV, and those are still largely liberal, especially the TV. 

It is certainly easy to lie in print, and even easier to lie with pictures (the immediate vividness fallacy). And also easy to lie by omission - look at all the stuff that CNN was until recently concealing from us. And it is even easier to get things wrong. All of the media get things wrong, and the more so the closer they get to something you know about. Military coverage drove me up the wall, because it was evident that most of the embeds had absolutly no effing clue what they were talking about. Fox had better ex-military analysts, and more knowlegeable correspondants than the other networks, hands down. I constantly saw (ABC especially, but also CNN and others) getting military stuff absolutely wrong. It drove me nuts. 

Also, if dictatorship of the proletariate means democracy, why all the silly jargon? Dicatorship really only has one connotation - nasty and repressive. 

Also Also Wik^✶Historical note from the Ministry: this was the first actual use of the wik/also wik construction for addendums to posts. You will find some earlier - but these were retro-fitted rather than native.: as far as hair splitting on the war on terror - Bush and the administration never said it was a war on Al Quaida. We declared war on terror, generally. So, in the end there is no real need for connection to Al Quaida. (Though I think we will find one.) BTW, It looks like my speculation on Syria might be right - harsh words from Colin Powell, among others.