What can I say?  The title is self explanatory, unless you've been under a rock the last 2 weeks.  Between photo manipulation, photo staging, Hezbollah "stringers" paid by the wire services for "news", media using Muslim extremists as expert commentators without context, and the medias general ineptness and bias all around I just can't take it anymore.  I mean, what's the point of media if it isn't real news they are reporting, just a bunch of hollywood staging and acting?  If I want fake, I turn on a sitcom or something on HBO.  Can someone answer that for me, I'm at a loss here...

I sincerely hope that there are about 200 million other folks in this country just like me, that come to the realization what they see on TV news and what they read in the local fishwrapper is most likely a slant, a staging or even outright fabrication.  You cannot trust the media, at all.  We've reached a sad point in our nations history.

What to do about it?  Turn off the news.  Don't ever spend a nickle again on a magazine or newspaper.   These companies still have a bottom line and in business, that's the only thing that matters.  They won't change on their own, but the shareholders of the companies will eventually demand it when the stocks fail. 

The next step is to create a real news network, non biased and charged with reporting both sides of stories.  I don't have the time or money, but someone does and that person is going to find a market salivating for credible reporting, a market ready to spend real money on facts, a market that has tired of old media and its shattered credibility.  That's the answer, first you tear up the old, then you create the new.