“Dishonest and Reprehensible”?

One of the more depressing phenomena in our time is the frequency with which dominant (so-called "mainstream") U.S. media reports without question the most mendacious imaginable utterances of criminal policymakers.

How many times in recent years have we seen television newscasters dumbly relay the Bush White House's blatantly false claim that its massive and starkly regressive tax cuts for the wealthy few provide serious "tax relief" for "the middle class" and "everyone who pays taxes"?

How many times did the media transmit without question the administration's preposterous claims that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed a serious threat to the United States, that Saddam was linked to al Qaeda and 9/11, and that he possessed significant "weapons of mass destruction"?