If the “mainstream” commercial news media would like to know why its reader/viewer ship is plummeting, it could look no further than its coverage of Syria over the past 10 days.
Remember how they promised never, never, to collude with the most belligerent and reactionary elements of the government to trick us into an hysterical stampede into calamitous war?
Well, they had their fingers crossed.
Read Smith in Salon about the “lapdog media.”