The mainstream media has been co-opted by the government to such an extraordinary extent over the past seven years, and appear to be concealing the facts of so many state sponsored arguments, they should be called 'the Governments' Media'.

ABC News prepared a TV special in the Fall of 2001 about the anonymous ongoing anthrax attacks taking place at that time. Blindly reporting the Bush/Cheney administration's official line that the attacks were from Iraq. In that context, in retrospect now, ABC News appears especially complicit in reporting administration generated lies as facts.

The credibility of mainstream media, in general, and the integrity of the self-image of the American people are the issues at stake, not merely ABCs' corporate hubris. It is a news organizations' patriotic duty to inform the U.S. populace if their sources are lying. The facts will be judged by the passage of time. Today there is massive public doubt concerning the veracity and honesty of both a media and a government awash in a tsunami of obvious self-contradictory disinformation.

Dishonesty has been the modus operandi of the Bush/Cheney administration, et al., from the first day of their election. Amounting to end-to-end lies revealed by nothing less than their own conflicted facts supported by nothing other than smug arrogance. Their hands caught repeatedly in the cookie jar are soiled beyond any possible cleansing. Dirtied by this offence, so too now by apparent collusion, is ABC.

'Facts', so-called, but clearly nothing but grossly misrepresented leaks and outright misinformation, are the order of the day. This continuous stream of lies glaringly obvious to the entire world if not to ourselves, demands a special prosecutor's attention and a thorough investigation of ABC--and other media outlets as well, (are you listening Fox News?)--their sources, and their complicity with the prime movers in the Bush/Cheney administration.

The content of the 'news' presented during the anthrax attacks, (unfortunately not limited to this case), is nothing but propagandistic insemination by a rapist government and the force feeding of lies to a commercially sponsored, integrity starved, enfeebled media. What a horrible legacy to leave for our country. The continuing pretense of this faux news ultimately will bring nothing but dishonor to all involved--you and I are included here. Should we question authority? Hah!

How dare we--We The People--even consider the possibility that our 'journalists', our media, could be held in-place by extortion or, worse, bribed by our own government.

How dare we question! How dare YOU, commercially driven media, dismiss our inquiries! Big media, you have allowed your own victimization. Shall I enumerate your castration one-by-one, YOUR Yellow Journalism, YOUR sell out...whoa, that would be more than a pair, THAT would be legion!

Remember that archaic contract you signed onto, the one where being a citizen of THIS country entitled you to certain rights? You know the one: the Constitution...our birthright. Do you now instead of legitimacy prefer to be known as the governments' bastard child?

ABC come clean, for yourselves, for us. Make the honorable decision willingly, professionally, regarding the sources for the anthrax story of 2001. If you cannot muster the courage now, events over time will.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

GHD/RHN

Following Glenn Greenwald's www.SALON.com blog, 'Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation', August 3, 2008, http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/03/journalism/index.html�also, http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=148199