The Republicans have created a monster that not even they can control any more.

[1-Old-Man]

13. I don't know about "original sin" but it is dam sure one of the 7-deadly-sins

There was a whole bunch of other deregulation that ushered us to this point as well. And then there is always the background of militarization and what has now become perpetual war.

The day the failure of the press came home to me was the day I learned of our new policy of "imbedding" reporters with our military in order that we would have a better view of our forces in action. On that day I told my boss, an old time newspaper guy with a law degree who had moved on to Government relations work by the time I worked for him, we had just seen the end to honest reporting of war.

If reporting is in the hands of a profit hungry few or the Government itself the public will not be served.