Who will fall on their sword?

[Heretic]

Much like Oliver North who fell on his sword to protect the President from the scandal of the Iran-Contra Affair. Who will fall on the sword for the Sestak job offer? Sestak repeatedly said that he received an offer to join the Obama administration if he dropped out of the race against Specter.

[Will Robinson]

I don't know but if it was the Bush administration the mainstream media would be all over this story that they are obviously ignoring right now.
The concept of journalistic integrity is a fading memory that started to disappear when Obama began to overtake Hillary in the primaries.

[Gooberman]

Perhaps I am saturated on political corruption, but I don't quite see whats offensive.

They wanted to keep a guy who was loyal to them, they offered a job to his opposition. He had the right to say no, he did say no, there where no reprucussions for him saying no...and he won.

The concept of journalistic integrity is a fading memory that started to disappear when Obama began to overtake Hillary in the primaries.

I've been posting here with you long before then, and I am pretty sure thats not when you started complaining about it.

[Will Robinson]

I think what makes it offensive is that someone in the White House may have broken a federal law by offering a government position as a reward for him pulling out of a political election.

And you are right, I've been pointing out our best defense against a corrupt government, independent journalism, has sold us out but with Obama's election they really took it to a despicably new low.

[flip]

In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. At the time, Ben Bagdikian was called \"alarmist\" for pointing this out in his book, The Media Monopoly. In his 4th edition, published in 1992, he wrote \"in the U.S., fewer than two dozen of these extraordinary creatures own and operate 90% of the mass media\" -- controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. He predicted then that eventually this number would fall to about half a dozen companies. This was greeted with skepticism at the time. When the 6th edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 2000, the number had fallen to six. Since then, there have been more mergers and the scope has expanded to include new media like the Internet market. More than 1 in 4 Internet users in the U.S. now log in with AOL Time-Warner, the world's largest media corporation.

In 2004, Bagdikian's revised and expanded book, The New Media Monopoly, shows that only 5 huge corporations -- Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) -- now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth.

If this is true, then it makes a lot of sense to think that everything we hear is only what a select few decide we should hear.