We're sorry. We won't do it again... until the next time.

I don't think I have ever hidden my disdain for the majority of the main stream media. They were granted a position of public trust in the founding of our country and they have forsaken it.
Although they abandoned any hope of redemption they are trying to convince us that they realize the error of their ways and promise they will be better reporters in the future.

Throughout the past 6 years and culminating in the media coronation of Barack Hussein Obama the MSM has become a cultural wasteland. With media empires such as the New York Times, Gannett, and the McClatchy Group forsaking any and all journalistic responsibility and smuggly continuing their rabid attacks on common sense while ignoring the facts surrounding the past of the man they chose to be President. All while KNOWING that their own polls, commissioned because they KNEW they were mortgaging their integrity to achieve their agenda, showed that even President Bush has stronger approval ratings that they do.

They commissioned the polls to gauge public opinion and trust in the media and saw the results were miserable because people knew they were in the tank for Obama... but they didn't care. They thumbed their noses at the wave of distrust, and by extension the American people, until they got what they wanted.

Now that the election is over the media is tripping over themselves, donning sack cloth and ashes, spewing mea culpas and rending their garments in anguish. They realize they have forsaken the public trust. And now they are sorry.

And that is horse crap.

The media had no great epiphany concerning their abandoning journalistic principles. (And I maintain abandoning their protection under the 1st Amendment.) Their rude awakening was caused when their accounting departments told them that they are going broke, there was not a wave of collective conscience that swept the industry. That is what they are sorry about... that we are not supporting them in their quest for a year end bonus.

They knew that people had little faith in them because of their unabashed bias, and they didn't care, they continued peddling lies and opinions as fact. Now they are going to try to regain people's trust, simply by saying they are sorry and won't repeat it.

The media used to be referred to as being the Fourth Estate. The protectors of liberty and freedom, that is the reason they are protected in the constitution, to protect the people from the government. But who is supposed to protect the people from the media?

So I hope people don't believe the editorials and articles that are certain to begin to flow from the editorial pages and broadcast journals saying they have realized the error of their ways. The proof of their contrition will be evident if they stop with their crazed bias and agenda pushing.
I expect to see journalists' round tables and blue ribbon panels gathering to ask how the media came so far off the mark. I'm sure there will be apologies, maybe even a token head will roll, but that is unlikely.

But I don't know why this surprises me so much. After all journalists all clamour for the Pulitzer Prize, an award named after a man who made his fortune in the days of Yellow Journalism. Ironically, the New York Times, perhaps the least credible and most biased of any print media source today, was founded as a credible alternative to Pulitzer's sensationalistic and often patently false brand of journalism.