It is nice occasionally in the current climate of political ozone where the idea on the part of so many is to spin lies repetitiously long enough to be accepted as truth to read something with which one can agree.

As someone who started my professional career in journalism, it grieves me to say that I emphatically agree with a statement I read the other day calling 2007 the most pathetic one yet for the mainstream media, in short what passes for news.

The establishment is very much alive and continuing to create suffocating ozone by the minute.  A classic example was a syndicated Associated Press article by Terence Hunt that appeared December 21 in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The headline exclaimed: