Blogs.

They're overrated.

Anyway, in response to Charlie Madigan's column defending mainstream media labeling others as info-pimps, he certainly raises a good point and it needs to be discussed.

These so called info-pimps, the ones who usually fabricate information about politicians (usually ones running in an election), they don't care who the information is about, Democrat or Republican, all they care about is whether it'll get more coverage.

They will broadcast or print whatever will get the most attention and thus the most money. The juicy tidbit of info is what sells.

Is it the fault of mainstream media for broadcasting or printing this false information? Well, partially. We need more fact checking, more investigations, more accountability. This is why the profession of journalism is down near used car salesman today. It was Thomas Jefferson who said "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

Of course that quote is wrong, but it's also the fault of the public to buy into these hogwash stories so faithfully. So some politicos paid someone to conjur up the Swift Boat scandal, and the public ate it up.

It seems like these stories are going to be the future of digging up dirt on your political opponents. It's not only the responsibility of mainstream media to NOT broadcast or print that propaganda, but the public needs to realize what it is when it does make it to the media.