Reply #5: Rarely does it seem the media does their own "fact checking". [View All]

That to me is sad. It's usually just a glossover or
they focus on the most sellable "controversial" part of
a story that often has little to do with what really matters.

Even if Clarke was a disgruntled employee, who gives a shit.
What matters is that multiple unrelated high ranking sources
have confirmed the basic premise we've all known from day 1:

That the grounds for starting an imperialist war were made up
and propagandized by the Bush administration.

This is the death of our Democracy if we are not careful.

Actually, it would make sense to me that Clarke is a disgruntled
employee. He seems like a guy who worked for both houses to
protect the country. He sees Bush and his warmongering chickenass
cronies come along and fuck everything up. NO wonder he is
disgruntled. I would be. And I certainly would try to expose the
mess.

Clarke is a whistleblower, similar to the whistleblowers of Enron.

Whether or not the media is being intelligent, at least the story
is being covered. It's just that it is being covered in somewhat
of an assenine way. Sometimes I feel we are little better off in
terms of access to honest information than many of those under
dictatorship rule (and often feel sorry for).