Reality-based journalists must stop parroting White House propaganda

WorkingForChange-Bush administration no longer a credible source: "Molly Ivins | Creators Syndicate | 01.24.06

Reality-based journalists must stop parroting White House propaganda
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Or might we actually have gotten far enough to point out that the series of high-profile security events is in fact part of a propaganda campaign by our own government? Should we report it as though it were in fact a campaign tactic, a straight political ploy: The Republicans say spying is good for you, but the Democrats say it is not -- equal time to both sides?

Perhaps we have some obligation to try to sift through what it means that our government is spying on us in violation of the law and the Constitution.

Then there's the problem of reporting within the context of this administration's other propaganda efforts. "We do not torture," and, "We are not running a gulag of secret detention centers," are two of the more recent examples, superseding the golden oldies -- like the smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud.
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... And part of that calls on American journalism to get over reporting the Bush administration as though it were a credible source. We need to face facts....