Matt Drudge: world's most powerful journalist

Says the UKs Telegraph

Thomas Sowell: Journalistic hoaxes and the New York Times

"Over the years, the New York Times has increasingly discredited itself"

Associated Press Doesn't Report Stories, They Make The Stories

True to form, Associated Press reporter Glen Johnson reveals his low-level professionalism in this video by: a) making up facts b) stating opinion c) becoming the story instead of reporting the story and e) exposing the vanity of AP reporters. Not very professional today Mr. Johnson.

Who checks these guys? Where's the checks and balances on the press? Where is the accountability for Mr. Johnson? The Press CLAIM they report stories; in FACT they create stories.

"Big Media Isn’t Used To Having The Spotlight Turned Around And Put On Them"

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington writes a great entry here regarding mainstream media's amazingly juvenile inability to self-scrutinize.

Big Media Fuels Crime's Flames

Mona Charen writes convincingly here how irresponsible news media are guilty of promoting horrible anti-social behavior. Stoking the fire of murderers' inextinguishable lust for fame, news media unhesitatingly report names, photos and identities of crime perpetrators.

Anti Elitism Devices: Start Your Emancipating

Electronic Readers change the way books are created, manufactured, distributed and consumed. An article here by Steven Levy does well in explaining the implications on the future of books and their authors.

Media Free-Fall From Power

Technologically produced transparency and decentralization of power are causing an uncomfortable shake-up inside institutions and felt by individuals that have heretofore been less accountable for their actions. Those with things to hide, or holding position by title or name authority only (as opposed to moral authority), or those arbitrarily or subjectively placed in markets without accompanying value, may find transparency considerably disturbing.