When will the media get a clue? Look, bias I can live with, but straight out lying I cannot. For decades the media has known that while lying is not a good thing for them, they could make some lies and never really get caught, because who was going to check the facts? And even if some reader did check the facts, how would they manage to get the word out to other readers? Well with blogs that's all changed, but the newspapers and magazines and TV news networks don't want to admit it. Powerline has an interesting spat going with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. It seems this paper had soem editorials way back in 1994 denouncing the filibuster as an enemy of democracy or some such thing. More recently, during the whole judicial nomination pissing match in DC, this same paper published an editorial pronouncing filibusters as essential to democracy and only a group seeking tyranny or some such rhetoric would dare to try to eliminate the filibuster. Powerline asked why it was bad when the Dems were in power, but now it's good. They even had pictures of the editorials, with the ability to enlarge them to be readable. The editor of the paper wrote in to say they were lying and the paper never said those things back in 1994. He didn't even bother to follow the links to the images of the editorials. Eventually he realzied he's wrong and promised an explanation, but none has been forthcoming, and their opposition to ending the filibuster, 180 degress from their 1994 stance, continues, as do the lies. Today they had an editorial in which they repeated the lie that Albert Gonzales said called Judge Priscilla Owens an activist judge. He did, but only if you cut out the context of everything else he said. The Star-Tribune is deliberately spreading this lie, thinking they won't get caught. They have gotten caught, but unfortunately it's still not easy to get the word out about this sort of stuff. ANyway, they are shooting themselves in the foot, because the public is losing confidence in the media. This isn't the fault of bloggers. I'd like nothing better than if my main complaint about the paper is that they talk about American Idol too much. Unfortunately there is something wrong when my main complaint is that the front page is filled with lies and contradictions.