Toward a 'Faith-Based' Fourth Estate

Here they come, the inquisition team is on its way. With money, power, and a fanatic Christian totalitarian bent, the religious right is waging war on America and her institutions turning nearly every forum of public expression into an inquisition of faith. Hey, to the Religious Right, there are simpler ways of doing this . . . if she sinks and drowns she is not a witch.

I don’t really have time to write about it now but this is really starting to look a lot like Salem. Home of homicidal Puritans, repressed sexuality and one of the worst fascist regimes the world has ever seen. The Indians should have never let them land. Oh well hindsight is 20/20.

On the lookout for a new "news paradigm?" Look no more! The World Media Association is on the case, as evidenced by a WMA-sponsored forum in our nation's capital this week. Pre-event publicity for the RSVP Forum, entitled "Needed: A New Paradigm for News," certainly asks the right question: "Are media giving people the kind of news they need?" Perhaps not, but any journalistic gathering that also questions the continued relevance of "the media's traditional role of reporting 'facts' (sic)" sounds more than a little dodgy -- even in our current celebrity-fixated, spin-obsessed, single-sourced, 24/7 news environment. After all, while it's a truism that everyone is entitled to his own opinion, have we finally reached the point where facts are no longer "relevant?" Is it really time, as the WMA asks, "for media to become 'guide dogs' instead of 'watchdogs?'" Rory O’Connor AltNet News