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Thanks for the recommendation. I have been rereading Jack Germond’s “Fat Man Fed Up” and Eric’s “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled over for Bush”.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2006/05/eric-boehlert-s-book-lapdogs-beats-the-press.html\

My problem is that even when we understand the problem I am not sure what average people can do about it other than not get bamboozled.

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Forgot to say that that Slate article is the kind of defensive response the media always mounts when criticized.

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