The media blood fest of the VP Cheney's accidental shooting and their 'head in the sand' refusal to address the freedom of the press issues on the Mohammed cartoons goes far to illustrate how the major media sources have lost their journalistic bearings and have become as irrevelant as any of the tabloids that one can purchase at the supermarket. As usual, Michelle Malkin has the issue well in hand as she writes:

The bad joke of American journalism is made all the more odious by the plight of endangered defenders of press freedom abroad. Last week, Abdel Halim Akram Sabra, editor of the independent weekly Al-Hurriya, journalist Yahya Al Aabed and editor of the Yemen Observer Mohammed Al Asaadi, were arrested for publishing the Muhammad Cartoons – something most of our right-to-know poseurs in the U.S. media still refuse to do.

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Yet, here we are, as embassies blaze and editors cower in fear and radical imams ululate against the West, watching our esteemed media go Looney Tunes over an isolated hunting accident.

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