Death Throes: The Mainstream Media Is Hanging By A Thread

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85. CNN isn't looking for overseas bureaus, and neither are ABC, NBC, CBS - folded the tent years ago

How much crap is out there on the internet? LOTS - Rense and Alex Jones and Debkafiles and Breitbart and Freepers and chemtrails and ZOG and Area 51 and the vaccine/autism link, and who's rocking epic sideboob - you name it. Anybody with a computer and Typepad can crank it out by the yard.

How much crap is out there on cable news? LOTS - Kardashians and the space-time continuum-warping search for Malaysia 370, and what the stars wore at the Oscars/Golden Globes/Emmys, and the "controversy" on global warming, and Casey Anthony and Nancy Grace (and the Flaring Nostrils of Justice) and the pathetic journalistic equivalent of a colostomy bag that is Leslie "Wolf" Blitzer and the dreadful, awful, horrible, pathetic failure (that wasn't) of Obamacare.

What's the difference? Well, in scenario A, it's up to the amateurs, the crackpots, the nutbags, the reality-challenged. In scenario B, it's in the hands of the professionals. And when CNN asks whether an airliner was "raptured" or if space aliens were involved, but 2.5 minutes of rapid climate collapse is "too long" (see also - Miles O'Brien and Neil Degrasse Tyson on climate reporting), WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?