Media is the Message

Regarding Benghazi, again, I don't think anybody will be impeached or even held accountable.  However, I do agree with Ben Shapiro that the media may have damaged their credibility in the long term.  Shapiro is optimistically overstating his case, but he is on the right track.  The mainstream, broadcast news outlets fell out of favor in the late '90s and early 2000s as talk radio, Fox News, and then the internet surged.  Forums and news sites, dominated early on by bright people on the right, that exposed collusion and blatant deception in the leftist government-media complex made people skeptical. 

The counterattack by the old alliance was, however, effective.  Fox News has been the object of one snipe after another and has surrendered much of its early high-ground influence.  Leftists have learned how to saturate the web with counterpoints and dominate the attention-deficit crowd on Twitter and the eternal high-schoolers on Fakebook.  Most news outlets never call the "official" statements of the big government crowd into question, because they are sympathizers.

Now the truth about Benghazi is exposing, not so much Obama or Clinton, but the left in general and its media partners in particular to new scrutiny.  The LowFlow voters and media consumers out there will not erupt in demands for network accountability or openly question why accurate and thorough reporting on such a tragic event was neglected.  But anybody who can fog a mirror will have some question, whether consciously considered or not, about the integrity of news readers.

That would be an improvement.