Plastic Turkey Story

One of the problems with the MSM is that it's a one-way medium. THEY are telling YOU. You can write them a letter or make a phone call to try to get a correction, but the only part of the dialog that other people read is what THEY allow. The MSM essentially has a "mute" button on disagreement.

So if they tell a lie about either a big or small thing, we - the public - is left dependent on the whims of the person who first told the lie. They can either admit it or not. And if the MSM telling the lie is the source of information for a lot of other media outlets, the lie quickly becomes the "truth."

And imagine if the MSM prints a correction. Like this one.

Correction: July 11, 2004, Sunday An article last Sunday about surprises in politics referred incorrectly to the turkey carried by President Bush during his unannounced visit to American troops in Baghdad over Thanksgiving. It was real, not fake.

Notice where it was found. Section 4, page 1, column 2. By this time the story about Bush's "plastic turkey" had turned into an urban myth spread throughout the world by the "repspected" NY Times and by all the papers tht picked up this story; and thier number is legion.