<p>The watchdogs of today’s media are internet bloggers. Whether its smoke in a Reuter’s story of Lebanon, Condi Rice’s eyes being manipulated by USA Today, or apparently fraudulent memos being used by CBS to attack George Bush-- its is the internet that exposes these frauds. I don’t think there is a conscience effort by the media to propogate these frauds, but there is a very small fringe around the media willing to perpetrate such frauds. The problem with the media is that they are susceptible to fraudulent acts because many of them see the results of the act as confirmation of their preconcieved views. You end up with people like Mary Mapes, a person who has such hatred for George Bush, that she is incapable of objective reporting. When presented with sustantial evidence that the infamous memos were fraudulent, it is her opinion that it is not her responsibility to prove with some degree of certainty that the memos were genuine. You then get headlines from the New York Times that the memos were “Fake But Accurate”. What lunacy. You read stories everyday about newspapers laying off workers and declining network TV news program viewership. No wonder.</p>