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Manufacturing Difference Between McCain and Bush
Killing the News in Iraq: Justifying the Unjustifiable
The Greatest Story Never Told
BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias
McCain Makes Stuff Up
WPost's Enduring Bush Cover-up
Chavez Revising, Not Revoking Venezuela's New Intelligence Law
McClellan and the Media 'Enablers'
McClellan Confessions Spark Media Denial
Surprise, Surprise: Bush Lied
Out-Foxing Fox: Times Totes Water for War Crime Spin
Spinning the News - The FARC-EP Files, Venezuela and Interpol
US Media Trivializes Campaign 2008
Death's Factotum: Michael Gordon and the Times Pour Pentagon Poison into Nation's Ear
TV News Blackout on Pentagon Pundits
Color-Coded: Jeremiah Wright and the Real Deal on Race
The Right's America-Hating Preacher
Pentagon Pundits
US News Media's Latest Disgrace
ABC's Debate Debacle
Reprising the Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman
The Very Annoying Washington Post
BBC: Imperial Tool
New York Times Explains Winter Soldier Blackout
(The Late) M.L. King Still Silenced
The New York Times v. Hugo Chavez
When a Great Power Goes Mad
Frontline's Timid Iraq Retrospective
Why Are Winter Soldiers Not News?
No Antiwar Voices in NYT 'Debate'
Viewing 'Iraq Winter Soldier' Testimony
Blinded by The Sun
The Flocked-Up Campaign Press Corps
Crushing the Ants: The Admiral and the Empire
Three-Stomp Blues: Vets Tell True Stories of the Terror War
On NBC, 'Expertise' Means Getting Iraq Wrong
Washington v. Cuba After Castro
McCain and the Lobbyist--Missing the Story of the Miss
Just when you think the media couldn't get any worse...
Open Letter to Keith Olbermann about Media's Treatment of Obama
Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdoch Empire
Obama, Clinton & GOP Attack Machine
Slander, Murder and Sixty Minutes: The Establishment Consensus on Iraq
CBS Falsifies Iraq War History
Crime Without Punishment: A News Roundup
Perilous Journalism in the Persian Gulf
What is This “Iranian Provocation” BS?
9-11 Cover-Up, Treason and The Bomb
Breaking: Corporate Media Actually Report Some Real News!
USA Today Squeezes Edwards Out of Race
War Is Over--Say the Pundits
Payment-per-Placement for Public Relations: A Dirty Underbelly of Journalism
Huckabee Chairman Hid Payoff Secret
Corporate News Means No Real News Where Impeachment is Concerned
FCC Proposes Greater Media Consolidation
Gary Webb's Enduring Legacy
The Lou Dobbs Primary?
Just Give Us Some Truth!
US Corporate Media Deliberately Censors the News
Washington Post Buys into Anti-Obama Bigotry
News Not Fit to Print: US Coup Planned for Venezuela?
A Matter of Opinion
How False Narrative Works
Giuliani, Pro-Choice?
Why We Write
I Saw a UFO, Too
NPR Defends Torture-Based Reporting
NPR Gives Torture Credibility
USA Today's SCHIP Favor
Social Security Scaremongering
Why Big Media Slimes Al Gore
Smearing Al Gore: Here We Go Again
If I Were a Tank, Men Would Bite Dogs
Five-Year Plan for Iraq?
Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Launches Online Scholarly Discussion of Role of Religion in Peace
A Conservative’s Garden of False Narratives: Who Are You Calling a Moonbat, Anyway?
Bush, Ahmadinejad & Authoritarianism
Stossel's Healthcare Solution
The Left's Media Miscalculation (Redux)
DAN RATHER: TASED AND CONFUSED
MoveOn & Media Double Standards
Bush's War Without End
Media Misrepresent Dems' Options on Iraq War
The Greatest Story Never Told
Candidates Are Being Forced to Sing the Same Song
NYT Smears Peace Movement, Again
NPR Touts Pro-Nuke 'Environmentalists'
Dennis Kucinich: Desapparacido!
Military Atrocities Less Newsworthy Than Right-Wing Fantasies
The NYT's New Pro-War Propaganda
A Free Press or a Ministry of Truth?
Bill Moyers Puts Impeachment On the Media Table
CNN vs. SiCKO
NYT on Iraq: Better Late Than Never?
Will the Press Idiocy Ever Stop?
Blacked Out by the Corporate Media, Impeachment Advances
USA Today's 'Sicko' Debate
Slandering the Dead: The American Massacre at al-Khalis
The Iraq-gate Cover-up Continues
Sunday Sun Hits New Low
Alliance With Atrocity: Bush's Terror War Partners in Ethiopia
Things Your Media Mama Didn't Tell You
Incendiary Weapons Are No 'Allegation'
Powell Belies 'Commander Guy' Bush
THINKING FLUFF
Romney's Iraq Gaffe Ignored
GOP/Media Rewrite Iraq War History
The New Assault on Al Gore
Bush's Global Warming Foot-Dragging
Can Democrats End the Iraq War?
Treated Like a Democrat
Journalists' Group Unmasks Sen. Jon Kyl as “Senator Secrecy”
Coup Co-Conspirators as Free-Speech Martyrs
Annals of Mendacious Punditry: Larry Kudlow's Pin-Striped Perfidy
Illegal, Yes—But Not Newsworthy
War-Pimping with a Smile: Of American Exceptionalism, Apple Pie, and Moral Rot
Bush and the Media: Playing Us for Fools
Eternal Return: Burying the Real Story of War
Democratic Excess
Bill Moyers' "Journal" Report on Iraq War Falls Short
Mainstream American Journalism: An Obituary
"Buying the War"
The Lies of the Times: NYT Pushes Bush Line on Somalia
Bill Maher’s “Towel Headed Hos”
Imus's Free-Speech Rights Were Not Violated
Time for PBS to Go?
CBS's Nuclear Revival
04.17 Post Office to the First Amendment: Drop Dead
Rallying Around Their Racist Friend
Racism Is to Be Expected From Don Imus
Happy is the Columnist who has no History
CNN's Impeachment "Reality Check" Needs Fact Check
Washington Post Prints New Wilson/Plame Attack
U.S. News Media's 'War on Gore'
ABC (Under)counting Iraqi Dead
Washington Post’s Editorial Fantasyland
Americans Have Lost Their Country
Shame on the Washington Post, Again
Cracks in the Pentagon
A word of caution on US claims of Iranian weapons killing GIs
Washington Post Disses the Dixie Chicks
Won't Get Fooled Again?
Staying Inside the Beltway
Rev. Moon's Anti-Obama Agit-Prop
Media Ignore Religious Freedom Day, 2007, But Why?
Debating the Iraq "Surge" on PBS
POWs on TV a War Crime? It Depends on Who's Videotaping
The GOP's $3 Billion Propaganda Organ (3 Parts)
Gary Webb's Death: American Tragedy
Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News
Hideous Kinky: The Genocidal Fury of Thomas Friedman
2008
Alternative Media Can Balance Establishment's Experts
Morning-After Pundits Take Winners to Task
Midterms and the Media
Catapulting the Propaganda with the Washington Post
U.S. Military Has Killed 127-238,000 Iraqi Civilians
FCC Destroyed Media Ownership Report
The Issue is not National Security but Image Security
U.S. Press Bigwigs Screw Up, Again
9/11's Dark Window to the Future
ABC's Agit-Prop: Another Serving From Bush's Poison Kitchen
How Obtuse Is the US Press?
Who Else Is Lying?
Smearing Joe Wilson, Again
What Ann Coulter Would Learn If She Actually Studied the Bible
'Because This Is the Middle East'
When Terror Is Just Fine
Racism Plagues Western Media Coverage
Was Bob Woodward Slam-Dunked?
The Neocon Battle for Media
Who's the Meddler? Not Iran!
Five Days Left
Why Democrats Lose
Gay Marriage Amendment Proposal Needs Serious Attention
Stand Up for Democracy With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Who's Guilty? The Victim, of Course
Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen, according to viewers of all news networks except Fox News
Colbert & the Courtier Press
The Failure Of The U.S. "Free Press"
Over 3.7 Billion Reasons Why The Baltimore Examiner Should Rethink Its Business Plan
US Media to French Youth: It's stupid to fight for equal rights not to be fired
Good News! The Rich Get Richer
It's the Media, Stupid
The Press Is Not Living Up to Its Special Responsibility to Uphold the Bill of Rights
How the Economic News is Spun
The U.S. Disconnect on Bush Abuses
Sun's Op-Ed Doesn't Shine
"Terror Plot" Reporting Lacks Skepticism
Snubbed by the Sun
The Media is No Exception
Bigger Questions for Mr. Woodward and the Washington Post
For Media Elite, Why U.S. Went to War is a Meaningless Debate
Why Ted Koppel Shouldn’t be Compared to Murrow
Parade Magazine's Chavez Smear
CBS's One-Sided DeLay Discussion
Covering Katrina: How US Media Control Faltered for a Moment
Misjudging Roberts: Newsweek dismisses accurate information on judge's record
A New Blacklist for "Excuse Makers"
BILL O'REILLY IN DRAG
“Borking” History: 1987 Supreme Court fight often misremembered
“Indefinite Detentions” on the Fourth
Paul Harvey's Tribute to Slavery, Nukes and Genocide
Media Feed Into the Public's Illusions
Deep Throat Cover Blown--But Washington Post Still Sucks
Bill Moyers' speech to the National Conference for Media Reform
Smoking Gun Memo? Iraq Bombshell Goes Mostly Unreported in US Media
Sun Omits Its Own Role in Glitzy Iman Story
On Border Patrols, Militiamen and ''left''-''right'' Misunderstanding
Liberating the ''Liberal Media''
All Pope, All the Time: What's Happened to Our Media?
Taking advantage of ignorance
Maryland Press Club Hosts Panel on "Crisis in Journalism"
The Darkness Is Here
''Packaged News'' or Propaganda?
I'd Rather Not Say Good-Bye, Dan
Media Omissions on Negroponte's Record
Getting Rid of the Wrong Person at CNN
"Sun's Readers Kept from Friedman," and Other Journalistic Atrocities
Who Needs Tom Friedman, Anyhow?
Mindless Media, Stewart's Case & Blair's Apology
USA Today Covers for Bush's Social Security Distortion
'Give Them Something to Believe In'
NBC Short on Social Security "Crisis" Critics
CBS 'Memogate' Fallout: Selective punishment shows media's true bias
Let's Apply Auditing Principles to Our Assessment of 'News'
Tsunami Disaster Highlights Corporate Media Hypocrisy<
F.A.I.R.: CBS Acknowledges-- But Doesn't Include-- Bush "Critics" on Social Security
CBS, CNN Mislead on Social Security
CBS & NBC Blacklist Inclusive Religion
US Media Ignore Civilian Tragedy of Fallujah
New York Times Killed "Bush Bulge" Story
Missing Information: US Media Mishandle the Story on 100,000 Dead Iraqi Civilians
Murdoch Exploits 9/11 for Kerry Smear
The 75% Solution
Washington Post Still Stretching to Find Kerry Fibs
Viacom Blocking Independent Political Ads
FBI Shutdown of Indymedia Threatens Free Speech
MSNBC's Rightward Slant on Debate Coverage
Sinclair's Partisan Ploy Cries Out for Equal Time
60 Minutes: Shelving a Story to Boost Bush?
Kofi Annan insists attack on Iraq is illegal, US allies disagree
THE LYNCHING OF DAN RATHER
PBS Panders to Right With New Programming
The Mysterious Case of the CBS Memos
The Sun's Happy Happy Talk
The Failure of Fact-Checking at the Republican Convention
Networks censored Kerry-Edwards midnight response to Bush on 9/2
Journalists Fail Fairness Test in "Swift" Story
Public remains poorly informed on reasons for war
Flawed media manipulated by anti-Kerry group
Media: A 'Problem' without a Solution?
Huck Finn and Jim Hash Out Press Confidentiality
Atrocious Reporting Showcased in The Sun
Will ABC Balance Stossel's Election Year Axe-Grinding?
Should Sean Hannity Be Denied Communion?
Fox News Spins 9/11 Commission Report
Beware the Heroes of the Left
Reagan: Media Myth and Reality
Ignoring Iraqi Opinion in the Name of Democracy
How Public Is Public Radio?
Media Uses Double Standards in Covering Presidential Campaign
Outrageous Journalism in the Gerrymander Case
Who's Really "Playing Politics"?
Sinclair TV: "Good News" Stories About Iraq?
Summing up The Bush Faux Press Conference
Finding a way around Right-wing News Control
Pundits Tell Kerry: "Move Right"
Beltway Humor: Media React to Bush's Weapons Jokes
Fear and Favor at the PBS NewsHour
Hey, Baltimore Sun--What's That About?
Networks Don't Follow the Money in Medicare Story
When Are Nazi Comparisons Deplorable? For Fox News, Only When Republicans are the Target
Hey, William Kristol: "Hit the Road, Warmonger!
Center for Public Integrity Wins Polk Award
Michael Powell and The Boob
Farewell, Bill Marimow—and Hello, What?
The Elusive Cost of Bush's Flight to Baghdad
Chairman Powell’s Problem
Sun Fails to Ask Essential Question in its Coverage of Bush at Hardware Megastore
Consumer Group Adds More Info on Bush-Home Depot Connection
More than Ineptitude?
Susan Reimer Tells How Rich Parents Ruin Society
Mainstreaming the Media Movement
School Jobs Cut, While Pentagon Gets Fatter; Michael Olesker’s Mum about the Latter
Rich Lowry’s Lesson in Junk History
Sun's Susan Reimer Hits New Low with Schwarzenegger Endorsement
Shariah Law in Nigeria—and in Texas and Tennessee
Media Still Lacks Minority Faces and Voices
Mark Crispin Miller's Operation American Freedom: He's a Stand-Up Kind of Guy
Many Deaths Left Out of Iraq Story
Media Display Lack of Curiosity in Single Payer Health Story
Sun Strays Off the (Peace) Path; Read the Facts Here
NYT Flaks for Government by Omitting Three Critical Words
Undeleted Uranium and the “Highest Standard”
Cute Quotes Can Skew Facts
Human Rights Watch Calls on Saudi Government to Make Real Reforms Instead of Mounting a Media Image Campaign
Poll Finds Major Polls Distort Results by How They Frame Questions
Hugo Chavez Is Crazy!
Editorial: Jayson Blair, Minor League Liar
Public Appears to Shrug Off Reporter’s Misdeeds
French Ambassador Details US Media’s Falsities
Behind the Scenes at the FCC: Access Counts
The Washington Post— and George Orwell
“Candid Camera on Crack,” and Other Social Ills
Fla. Court Rules It’s Legal for Press to Lie
Who's Paying for those Embedded Journalists?
SARS: More Panic than Peril?
Major Broadcasting Company Sponsors ‘Patriotic Rallies’
Where’s the Media Coverage of ‘Patriot II’?
Liberal Talk Show Set to Provide Alternative to Limbaugh
What Makes People Believe Bush Lies? Could It Be Media Repetition?
The Curious Timing of Ashcroft’s Scott Ritter Investigation
NPR’s “Justice Talking” Takes on Yucca Mountain & More
Brit Vets Say Anthrax Vaccine May Have Been Thrown Overboard
“Astroturf” Letters to the Editor
Why the Public Needs to Check Out These “Best 9/11 Sites”
The Great Deregulator
Does White House Have a ‘Fetish for Secrecy’?
Ad Copy Received by Email Shows How Search Engines Can Skew Results to Make Profit
“Light for all”? Only if you connect the dots.
An Appeal to Bill Gates, Ted Turner, or Some Other Billionaire
To Wolf Blitzer: Good Thing CNN Is Not Our Only News Source
To Peter Jennings & ABC: Your Double Standards Are Showing
To Limbaugh Advertisers: Don’t Support Those Who Support Racism
Enter Kissinger, the Accidental Appointment
HBO Recycles Gulf War Hoax
How Did those WTC Buildings Collapse?
Cowards at the Sun
A Lesson In U.S. Propaganda
The Sun Shows No Nose for News
The Case of the Missing Information about Iraq’s Weapons
An Open Letter to Fellow Media-Watchers
Open Letter to MSNBC
Failure To Fire Journalists Who Lie Shows Rotting from the Top
Here’s The Missing Part of the Gore Transcript from Barbara Walters’ “20/20”
The Curse of a Monopolized Press
Where’s ‘Democracy Now’?
Times, NPR Change Their Take on DC Protests
A Free Press, but for Whom?
Media Shortchange Coverage of State Legislatures
Sunspot.net – Light for all Tyranny
911 Mysteries
Fox Hunting Trumps Peace Activism at Washington Post & New York Times
In the Wake of 9-11, the American Press Has Embraced a ‘Demented Caesarism’
Welcome to Hell
Will the Real George W. Bush Please Write In?
The Washington Post and the Road to Dictatorship
The Washington Post and the Road to War Against Iraq
Sun Dodges Bush/SEC Story
Attacks on Pledge Ruling Bolster Its Logic
Canadian Politicians Confront Issues Related to Media Consolidation
The Mass Media: Corporate Control Up, Quality Down
Hope and Achievement Seen in East Timor's Independence
The Suicide Bombing Network, 24-7
What a Difference Words Can Make
U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move
Why Same-Market Ownership of Newspapers and Broadcasting Stations is a Bad Idea
Mainstream Media Supports Israel's Occupation
PBS's Globalization Series Fails to Come Clean About Its Underwriters
Investigative Journalist Greg Palast Tours U.S. to Promote His New Book (an indictment of media)
The Sun Toils Toward its 30% Profit Goal
Discerning the Truth: English Course Teaches Students Media Literacy
In Spite of Media Distortions, Lies, Deceit and Secrecy: The Truth is Marching On
Big Media Is Getting Bigger, And Here's Why We Should Be Concerned: What's Wrong With This Picture
Bin Laden Book Gets One-Note Treatment from Me-Too Lapdog Press
The Sun Toils Toward its 30% Profit Goal
"Big Media" Monopolies Not Limited to U.S.
Bush's Spending Madness
Three Cases Show How the Media, and Our Democracy, Are at Risk
FCC Set to Eliminate Media Diversity
The New Un-Fairness Doctrine: What's That Smell?
ABC Omits U.S. From Human Rights Report
We Need the ABCs About the ABM Abrogation
Professor Estimates At Least 3,500 Afghan Civilians Have Been Killed by US Bombs
The Virus Called Terrorism
The New Un-Fairness Doctrine: What's That Smell?
Bush Admin Pushes Provision in Anti-Terror Bill to Help Tobacco Companies; Congress Says No Dice
Ted Turner Sorry NOW
Look to the Internet for Alternative Commentary
Progressive Links
BURYING THE LEAD, Who really won the Florida presidential election last November?
Enron’s Fall Raises Questions, but the Big Media Aren’t Asking
Perspective: What’s So Important About the Constitution, Anyway?
How News Media Gave Up on Florida Vote Audit
Disney/ABC Steps Over the Line
Getting in the Picture About 9/11
What Are We Fighting For?
Media: Republican-controlled Carlyle Group poses serious Ethical Questions for Bush Presidents, but Baltimore Sun ignores it
Media: The Ignored Warnings; The Ignored Story
Media: Are Media Missing the Lesson of Oklahoma City?
The Media and the Debates Over Gun Control
Media: Prez IQ Study a Hoax
How Guns & Politics Mix
Media: Fat-Cat Newspaper Execs Don’t Answer to Readers
MEDIA: Bottoms-Up Journalism Fails To Provide Essential Facts
MEDIAWISE: ‘Shiftless’ in The Sun
MEDIA: ‘Bush Dyslexicon’ Shows We All Have A Learning Disorder
MEDIA: Sun Tries To Shed 20 Employees
MEDIA: Sun Lauds Baldwin—Again
MEDIAWISE: Why does media ‘frame’ the Bob Kerry story the way it does?
Media: Great Walls of Our Time; the Quebec Trade Meeting
Mediawise: We Protest, They Control: Fighting For Election Coverage
Media: ‘Faux News’ at Fox
Broadcast Media Ignore Campaign Finance Reform
Instructive Tales of Two City Newspapers
Sun’s Stadium Editorial Lacks Rudimentary Truth Media: Selective Blindness
Media: A Free Press?
Media: Mumia Abu Jamal: The Facts of the Case
FBI Attorney Discusses ‘Carnivore’ Software
Media: Jan. 17, Sun’s ‘Day of the Liberal’
Media Resource List
Media: Remember the 2000 Coup d’Etat!
Media: 'The Alternative' Takes Break; National Companies Merge
Media: 'Sun' Gives Bush A Pat
Media: 'Sun' To Shed Reporters
Media: Sun, Post Editorial Page Imagery Serving as Propaganda
Media: Dyslexia? You Decide
Media: Open Letter to Jim Lehrer
Media: Patuxent Pubs Punt
Media: Muffled Coverage of U.N. Vote on Mideast
Media: Police State U.S.A.
Media: What’s Media’s Proper Role in Conflicts?
Media: Bad Geography
Media: What Nader Said at the NAACP Convention
Media Claim Bush Family To Add ‘Dignity’ to White House
Barnes and Noble: Misleading Free Publications?
Tsunami Threat Is Flimsy News
Media: Barnes & Noble Shuts Out “Free” Pubs.
Media: Of Rats, Lead, Violence, and Overblown ‘Science’ Reporting
Media Shut Out Nader
Media: The State of the Union
The Sun’s IMF Protest Stories...
Proposal for An Information Deficient City
Editorial Makes Sun Look Bad
Media: A Tribute To Chomsky
Media²: ‘Analysts’ All on the Same Page for Media Merger
Media: The Upcoming Internet Battle
Media: Kane to City: Give Us More Guns!
Media: Lancing The Sun
Media: Sun’s Hypocritical Editorial Omits Tax Info.
Media: How U.S. Media Limit Range of Expression
Media: ‘Let’s Make Millionaires’
Media: Farewell, John Hall
Media: Sorry WTO Coverage
How To Stop Junk Mail
Media Fail To Acknowledge Other Balkan ‘Monsters’
Free Press in the New Millennium?
The Media’s Fascist Side
Media on AIDS, AZT and Africa
Media Relations....
Sun's ‘Pattern’
Washington Post Serves CIA Again
Hey, Do the Math!
Media: The Real Y2K Nightmare
Watching Out For Investors
Marylanders Are Generous, But Who Would Know From The Sun?
NATO’s War and the Local Media
SunIgnores NATO Atrocities
What Should Be Reported To Make Us Stop War
Sun's Empty Words on the Media's Credibility Gap
Refuting the Lie on Social Security
Times Mirror profits up; is quality?
On Greenspan
Mediawise: a. Sun coverage of Marriot Blackmail b. Good-bye, Ms. Junck, we hardly knew ye c. Well, duh!
The El Shifa Tragedy
At The Sun, U.S. Land Mines Are Viet Problem
EDF Too Friendly with Corporations
Global Warming Nothing Compared to Redskins Sale
Dissident Critic Noam Chomsky speaks at Loyola
Crisis in Journalism: Whiteout
Bush Family Is All Good News?
Goldstein died rich; did we pay?
‘Why Do They Hate US?’
Media's Bias: Lies and Omissions Over Pinochet
Media Mannipulates: Historical Revisionism in Reporting, Editorials
Who’s Responsible for The Monica Media Circus?
Media on Stadiagate: Who Wins, Who Loses
Show Trial in Greenbelt
Media Spin: ‘Too Busy’ To Vote-- Another Useful Myth
WSJ Writer Gets Balto. Facts Wrong
Can Media Diversity Be Saved?
Disc Jockey John Hall Holds Open Season on Baltimore Airwaves
The “History Channel” Gives Us War, Bubblegum & Not Much Else
Pol Pot Had Help
Rules of the Game
Media Ignore Criticism of U.S. Bailout of Indonesia
The CIA's Latest Coup
What's News?: In Dogged Pursuit of Salient Facts from The Sun
Spotlight On: Media Ethics in Covering Protest in the 1990s
Sun's "Adjacency Opportunities"
Iraq's Invisible Victims
Portland's Growth Management
What's In A Name?
The FOOD FIGHT Debate
Sun's Wimpy Editorials
Media vs. Mumia Abu Jamal
Mediawiser: MBNA's Rocky Return to MD Offers a Lesson in Business Journalism
Who Should Control Airwave Access?
Media Kept Lid on CIA-Contra Drug Story
The Big Chill
Perspective on The Sun's Sad Decline
It's the Anti-Growth Federal Reserve, Stupid!
Media Monopolists Buy A Bill
Mark Crispin Miller: The Media
Why It Makes Sense To Doubt Media