Foxy,

I wish you and your family all the best for the new year too.

If your optics on politics are so far to the left that everyone in the mainstream media appears conservative and the NM and IA are "sources that do provide serious journalistic endeavor", you have my pity.

The mainstream media is just that: Mainstream. Newscorp is presently right of center and Fairfax is left of center, but both institutions provide news and commentary from all sides, with the openly conservative journalists you loathe providing only a small portion of the content along side openly left wing proponents such as Richardson and Bramson.

The MSM are also held to standards of journalist integrity that the fringe blogs don't.

SM,

I appreciate your comments and will
do a bit more thinking on the issues being
discussed. I feel that we
all have our biases and it is difficult at
times to be objective. However, I do appreciate the
fact that we are able to have our discussions with
respect and civility.

See you on another thread.

All The Best.