CBS -- news or propaganda

CBS has been a suspect news organization since the days of Walter Cronkite and his anti war reporting on Vietnam.  It was Cronkite who took news reporting from the facts to advocacy which the three major networks into promoters of liberalism.  As this article articulates, CBS is so far in the tank for the liberals that they even withhold parts of interviews that may not fit the narrative du jour.  What's frustrating about this state of affairs is the fact that the FAA, a government agency tasked with permitting these privately owned networks access to the public's airways, does not hold them accountable for this powerful advocacy journalism -- as it is supposed to.  It is an established fact that journalists are overwhelmingly liberal and vote accordingly in elections.  Again, were it not for the emergence of the internet, talk radio, and Fox News, conservatives would be trapped in the same prison of liberal ideas as those who watch CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC, and who are served by big city liberal papers like the Washington Post, NYTimes, LATimes and many others.  While Republicans are out creating businesses that employ people and make the wheels of the economy turn, Democrats are busily doing their best to undermine the system in then guise of making nit more fair, or something.  Still, the liberal paradigm has run its course.  They have now run out of "other peoples' money" in pursuit of a level playing field and all the rest of the socialist dream world fantasies of the perfect society.  Hopefully a Romney election can reverse the 80 year drift to more government, collectivism, and less individual freedom.  Since the failure of the USSR provides a vivid example of where the liberal path eventually leads us, one has to wonder why so many want this solution.

Detroit revisited

Occasionally, very occasionally, the LATimes produces good work  There was the series a couple of years ago about the failed hospital in south L.A., and now a piece on the California Teachers Association and its lobbyist Nunoz.  If one wants to know the depth and seriousness of the economic woes in California, one needs go no further than this article..  It tells it all.  What we have here is Detroit revisited, and we will, in due course, have the same end result.  Unions and their excessive demands caused Detroit's ultimate demise.  Yes, there was the issue of the failure of management to deal with the unions in an effective way, a fact that cannot be overlooked.  But, in the end, the compulsion of unions to keep bringing home the bacon for their members by always increasing wages and benefits, and by always adding to restrictive workplace rules and regulations, is the overriding reason Detroit shrank in population from several millions to its current 400,000,  from a thriving metropolis to a basket case, failed city that is bankrupt.