Earth: The Entertainment Channel for Aliens

The only reason I'm posting this is to give you
another chapter in the Greatest Soap Opera on
Earth.

It's a typical 'soap'. The characters are to be
laughed at while most of the rest of the world
takes it as high drama.

That's the most hilarious part of all.

Reading this, I almost sprayed a mouthful of beer
on my monitor.

But the Gannon affair, which has shocked much of
America's political establishment, is just the
latest scandal in the media establishment.
Newspapers including the New York Times and USA
Today have been hit by plagiarism and forgery
scandals. Other papers and television stations
have been consumed with a soul-searching inquest
into how they were misled about non-existent
Iraqi weapons programmes. Added to that is
growing evidence of a White House campaign to
bypass or control the media in its everyday
presentation of government policy , which
included paying one journalist hundreds of
thousands of dollars to promote its policies.

Last week a federal watchdog warned the Bush
administration that any video news releases must
state that the government is the source. Twice in
two years, government departments have been
accused of distributing fake news packages, using
actors as journalists.

Read.