When the postmortem is performed on this age of putrid lies,

lies that caused the murders of three thousand people in New York, the murders of a million Iraqis, the torture of scores of hapless nobodies, and the domestic theft of Americans' rights and the dismantling of lawful government, it will be plain --with precious, precious few exceptions-- that if a word was printed on newsprint or was spoken on television, that it was completely irrelevant to any meaningful national discussion.

From the years 2001 to 2009, the value of the print and broadcast news media approached zero. Good for disseminating narratives, but little else.

So when you've been laid off from your newspaper job and you regret not being able to hobnob with thieves at your Gridiron dinner or whatever --journalists should never, ever be hobnobbing with politicians, much less dancing onstage with Mixmaster Rove and the Funky Bunch anyway-- so when you're sitting in your sunroom at home, drinking coffee at eight in the morning instead of being at work, don't moan and groan about those filthy bloggers stealing your oh-so-valuable AP news and aggregating it.

...You weren't doing anything with it anyway.

Nine-Eleven, the story of your LIFETIME, got broke by the alternative news media.

Not you.

Let's recap:

• A five-dollar calculator will indicate that it is nigh impossible for a steel-framed structure to collapse from fire. NIGH IMPOSSIBLE. It brushes up against 'impossible.' And three structures successfully brush up against 'impossible' and collapse in one day? Uh huh. Right.
  
• Your five-dollar calculator predicts that the energy deficit required to collapse those buildings can best be accounted for by demolitions charges. Thermite demolitions charges are the mode of the day. Hypothesis formed.
  
• Lo and behold, physicists independently discover thermitic material in the World Trade Center debris. Hypothesis buttressed.

So when you're cryin' a river about how no one appreciates good journalism anymore, just remember that you can't even cover your own material, the SCOOP OF A LIFETIME, how thieves hired compartmentalized elements within the CIA, Mossad, the Pentagon, the Bush Administration, and the "news" media to pull off the most artless forgery in anyone's recollection.

Pray tell, when are you planning on covering this story?