The Failure of the Fourth Estate - Journalism is Dead

Okay, so if you've never heard this phrase before, I will enlighten you. The Fourth Estate is the name given Media as the watchdog over the power of government and the abuses that naturally result form power.

Media is supposed to be neutral, serving all of us equally. Their job is to REPORT the news, not make the news. Their job is to provide only the facts and whatever background info necessary to make a news item understood in proper context.

But what has media evolved into, especially in the last 8 years? A partisan entity that no longer even attempts to hide behind Journalism. I mean, c'mon here folks! Chris Matthews of MSNBC's Hardball once stated when he heard Obama speak he got a chill running up his leg. I wonder if he's confusing a "chill up his leg" with a chubb for his boy? And didn't Keith Olberman of that same MSNBC recently call McCain "despicable?" Neither of those paraphrases sounds neutral to me.

These folks in media have crossed the line from observation and reporting to full on advocacy. Even Saturday Night Live has taken to lampooning the media and their chubb for their Messiah. The season premiere this year had Kristen Wiig playing Campbell Brown stating "The media is totally in the tank for Obama." (paraphrase) And 2 weeks ago SNL did a skit lampooning Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and even George Soros himself about the sub-prime fiasco, but Soros complained, and as the owner of the Democrat Party as Soros himself claims, he had SNL remove the "offending" portions of the skit from their YouTube videos.

Media have done all they can to abuse the public's trust. They have unabashedly advocated for Obama and the Democrats. They make no apologies for their actions and in fact continue to pile on more and more evidence that indeed they are in the tank for Obama. They're taking a dump in their palms, and acting like the chimps they are, they are tossing their feces at us, right into our faces, all the while daring us to do something about it.