Where are the responsible, courageous journalists?

Are there no responsible, courageous journalists left in America?   Doesn't anyone stand up to the Republicans and confront them with their distortions and lies?

Remember . . .  repeat a lie often enough and it becomes "truth," -- with a small 't' of course.  Or what Stephen Colbert would call "truthiness." **

Here but the latest example.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL) staged a petition signing today at a Miami gas station, aimed at forcing President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.  Rep. Mack is running against incumbant Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), and he obviously sees a political advantage to blaming both Senator Nelson and President Obama for the rising pump price of gasoline.  Delaying that decision to allow for an environmental impact study to be completed has nothing to do with today's pump prices, except in the minds of politicians who smell a story they can sell to a gullible public -- and nary a serious journalist to ask them to explain how that could be.

Please see ShrinkRap's April 5th blog, "Playing politics with prices at the pump," for a complete debunking of that false assertion.

If I know the truth, and if a few serious journalists know it, why is it so far above the newspaper writers and TV news hacks to know it?

Knowledge may not be the answer.  It's money.  Who owns the papers?   Who says what can and can't be published?   Big money.

The better papers at least shield the editorial page from money influence, but there are few of those "better" papers left these days.

Money controls government, money controls and is ruining academic research, money controls the press.   One begins to wonder, even, if money controls the United States Supreme Court?

Ralph

** Truthiness, a word coined by Colbert in 2005 and now defined by the American Dialect Society as "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true."  Colbert used it initially to satirize George W. Bush's nomination of Harriet Myers to SCOTUS and to his decision to invade Iraq in 2003.