You know what would be nice? A real news show.
You know, sort of like the Daily Show, only serious. A show where they immediately de-spin the spin. A show not afraid to use the lead-in "More White House Lies".
A show with a memory, and the stock footage to back it up. Where the usual Republican revisionist history crap is always accompanied by footage of what actually happened. So, for instance, some conservative flak spinning their current bullshit about the Clinton administration being responsible for North Korea's nuclear bomb making would never be allowed to get away with presenting such bullshit as the truth, as they would be immediately de-spun by a presentation of the actual facts. (If you are interested in the truth about North Korea's nuclear bombs and how the Bush Administration is directly responsible for them, Slate recently had a good article on the subject.)
A show that fact-checks, and isn't afraid to actually present the truth, rather than the opinions of various interviewees. A show that would, for instance, that would discover the current paid Republican hit-piece on Harry Reid is a) ethically a complete non-issue and b) a paid hit-piece by a con-man who has tried exactly the same thing in the past. Frankly, the story isn't the fact that Reid behaved ethically, it's that there's a paid Republican operative at the AP who is engaged in partisan character assassination.
A show that actually presents real issues, with real meaning. Such as Hastert's ethically bankrupt land deal, which somehow was never presented on the front page or the lead story.
A show that doesn't give a damn about utterly trivial non-news. That will never waste time on Madonna's adoption. (I'm looking at you, BBC. What the fuck sort of "news" is that?)
The market already supports a "news" network whose stock in trade is propaganda and distortion - isn't there room for a news network that actually fact-checks its stories? That takes no politician at face value? Whose audience would consist of people actually interested in the truth and not just bullshit that lets them continue to believe what they've chosen to believe?
In short, a liberal news network?
Ah, but you see right through the fallacy of my position. That's right, the existance of "the market". There's no "market" in news. It's a tightly controlled oligopoly. And an oligopoly with a very strong interest in not presenting the truth, the facts. That would much rather air 9-11 "mockumentaries" written by buddies of Rush Limbaugh than the actual truth about the most important event of the decade. An oligopoly with a very small set of very wealthy owners. Owners who are not interested in the welfare of America... at least, America outside of their own class.
Once again in America, Capitalism trumps Democracy.
- Sun Ra