The Kevorkian Media

In 1999 Jack Kevorkian was convicted of second-degree murder for directly participating in the voluntary euthanasia of Thomas Youk. Mr. Youk, 52, was in the final stages of ALS. Youk provided Kevorkian his fully-informed consent on September 17, 1998.
On November 4, 2008 our country effectively gave its consent to being euthanized, although that consent was surely not the "informed consent" that Mr. Youk provided Dr. Kevorkian. Rather, it was a consent obtained through the lies, of omission and commission, fed to the American public by a media completely incapable of credible, factual reporting.
What Obama is doing to the country now is not a surprise to those who took the time and made the effort to research his history, character and motivations. During the campaign, however, Obama was able to package his destructive, socialist agenda as "hope" and "change". The mainstream media went along with him unquestioningly and exerted great effort to convince America that Obama's program would actually be good for the country. And they will continue to do so, even as Obama destroys what has made this country a unique success in the history of the world.
Thomas Sowell captured the crux of the problem brilliantly in his column on April 7, 2009 (see link below) when he wrote "Perhaps the scariest aspect of our times is how many people think in talking points, rather than in terms of real world consequences. " In that same piece he also wrote "Liberals seem to think that they are doing lagging groups a favor by making excuses for counterproductive and self-destructive behavior. The poor do not need press agents. They need the truth. No one ever said, "Press agents will make you free."
And our mainstream media will not make us free either. They are as committed to the statist agenda as Obama is, and have dropped all pretense of playing the watchdog role so needed now. Washington DC is where the greatest risk to individual freedom always lies, but never more so than when a single party controls the White House and both houses of Congress. If a true watchdog press was ever needed, it is now. Unfortunately we now have a lapdog press, eager to please and unwilling to question those in power.
The Constitution defines the proper roles of the federal government, among which are the responsibility to "secure the Blessings of Liberty" for the American people. But the federal government itself is now the greatest threat to our "Blessings of Liberty", and with a compliant press ready to help the current Congress and administration euthanize us, all Americans are at risk if we don't move beyond the spoon-fed talking points and think about the real-world consequences of policies and programs destined to lead us to failure.
http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/04/07/random_thoughts