Another reason not to trust the British press (or Drudge)

Heh! Gotta say, I saw a good Drudge reference in our local paper today. The article was about Speaker Pelosi and her briefing by the CIA:

Posted by tr88 07:38 AM, 05/15/2009
Good to see the Inquirer getting on this story a month after the Drudge Report isnt it? And Drudge is free. The difference is Drudge is a real news source, not an advocate.

Bwah-hah-hah-hah!!!! I did have to put in about a paragraph's worth of qualification's though. Such as "Yes, online sources are much better than traditional media sources," etc.

If the print media wants to be around and retain their integrity over the internet they can't be a part of the internet sites like Drudge. I'd blame lazy reporting that's common at a lot of newspapers for merely ripping off internet sites. It's why I hate the argument that newspapers need to be saved. Why, when they've just become a part of internet news blogs.

The main problem with "the media" is: Rupert, Rupert, Rupert!!!

The Telegraph (known by us who don't read the rag as the Torygraph) is the paper of the right wngers who own the UK. It was own by Lord Conrad Black but he is doing what Blago will be doing soon after ripping off the company to buy stuff for himself.

This paper has done a great job in the last two weeks and exposed a lot of the milking of expenses by politicians but it was very interesting in the way it did it. They first exposed those in the Labour government for claiming for things like bathplugs, yougurt and bookcases. The country spent the weekend rightly venting their collective spleens over these so when it came to the tories and their claims for moats around family castles, dug and heated swimming pools and re-turfing helicopter landing pads people were already in high dudgeon and did'nt really focus on it like they should.