World's Wisest Canadian Speaks Out on the Radio

Yesterday, the BBC Evening News quoted Tony Blair on the latest St. Vitus Dance hysterical frenzies afflicting the British press with a statement that could have applied to US news organizations as well. Tony said something like "in today's excitable media environment, every mistake is a disaster, every problem is a catastrophe, and every accident is the end of civilization as we know it."

I just wish that GWB was one-tenth as articulate as Tony B, but George don't talk well and we have to live with that for another two years.

But Mark Steyn on Radioblogger gives Hugh Hewitt his opinion on just what ails the MSM barons as they whinge and natter about how persecuted they are becoming just because of a few treasonous stories that in almost every country with any self respect would give them a bullet in the back of the head for:

HH: And from Canada or Vermont or New Hampshire, or someplace way up north, Mark Steyn, columnist to the world. Mark, how are you today?

MS: Good to be with you, Hugh. I'm doing great.

HH: Did you by chance see Bill Keller's e-mail yesterday, suggesting that the liberties of journalists are at stake, and that this administration is threatening them in ways previously unheard of?

MS: Yes, I did, and I think it more or less reveals the bubble of the fading guild class. They sound increasingly like a closed shop union did in the 1960's or 70's.

HH: Well Mark, a couple of questions and answers today about that subject from a live audience. And I think there is a deep hostility, not within the Bush administration, but within the American people to the elite media leaking secrets, and acts which under most ordinary analysis, would amount to espionage. Do you hear that when you're out on the road? Do you think it's widespread? Or simply unique among conservatives who might come to Hugh Hewitt book signings?

MS: No, I don't think so. I think there is a genuine skepticism about the media's claims of special privilege. And I think in this case, it's particularly true, because there's not doubt that they're now awarding themselves prizes for acts that most previous societies throughout human history would have regarded as treason, and jailed people for it, if not executed them. And I think they don't realize quite the absurd reflecting mirror world they live in. They're all so busy reinforcing each other's illusions.

Yes, in the days of featherbedding and massive union corruption, the proletariat could dictate a lot of apodictic nonsense to the public at large and get away with it. And the senior craft guild of MSM journalism, whose governance by such disinterested---NOT! cabals like the Pulitzer Prize Committee can reward its members for treasonous activity and be praised by its underlings for suicidal tendencies---that is a guild ready for destruction, self-destruction by its own delusions of self-importance and legislative privilege---just like the trade unions did to themselves in recent years.

And if blogging and bloggers can grease the skids of this descent back into reality by the MSM, more power to blogging and bloggers!