The Conundrum

What if a consortium of alternative media established a news agency along the lines of the AP? [More]

Well, not too closely along those lines...

But he's dead nuts on about defining the MSM problem and he's right in principle. Without a capability to do investigative journalism, alternative media is limited to rewording and opining on the fare offered by those with such resources.

I like the idea of a consortium, but having some experience trying to herd cats in an environment plagued by infiltrators, disruptors, the indifferent, the closed-minded, the apathetic and the willfully ignorant, I'm trying to envision the requisite demand needed to sustain such a venture. That and there would need to be transparency over decisions on what to cover, how much, and what not to cover, as well as openness about disagreements over such decisions.

And in the words of my least favorite George Harrison song:

But it's gonna take money

A whole lot of spending money

It's gonna take plenty of money

To do it right child

Aye, there's the rub. And not the only one.

In a world of comfort zones surrounded by seemingly impenetrable walls of illusion, how much of a market is there for the truth?

Shall we ask Pogo?

"Authorized Journalists," just like politicians, get away with it because "we" allow them and reward them. And that gets back to

I see Western culture, which has had all the advantages, believing in the most bizarre things, committing suicide in spite of reality being right there in front of everyone's faces. Of the handful who do partially see through both the engineered and the self-imposed fog, I see less cohesive unity than I do hostility and rancor -- some of it planted by those with an agenda to create discord on behalf of either their own nihilism or as operatives.

Maybe we're not going to report our way out of this, either.

And all that said, I admire and applaud the rational goal of pursuing the truth wherever it leads. I pray that the prophecy is fulfilled.

But that alone won't get 'er done.