The media's job is to influence not inform

Brandon Crocker reminds us that those who feel that the 2004 election of George Bush represented a failure of the media to do its job are still broadcasting the "news." After pointing out the many differences between Iraq and Vietnam, Crocker does point out the one thing that is identical:

This is the one big similarity to Vietnam. The "mainstream" media sees its job not as reporting the news, but as trying to defeat U.S. foreign policy.

They are the enemy. For the good of the country, they need to be defeated.