I think it would be a lot of work, Dale, to go through all the stuff that's printed in those papers and shown on those stations to provide a large cross section of examples of where they make their mistakes. I think there are a few key things to keep in mind.

1. They base the lead and top stories on what is most sensational.  Michael Jackson is bigger than a bomb going off that kills 8 Iraqis.

2. I feel there is a large gap between how the government has evolved its techniques for controlling the media and what they are saying any given day and how the media has evolved to cope with this deception or perhaps what you might call bait and switch tactics. The media all crowds in to report the president telling us we need more oil refineries but I dare you to find the story about a major breakthrough in alternative energy in the paper. The political parties spend their evenings and mornings deciding what their talking points will be and then ship them out to the party and everybody repeats them to assure their appearence in the media that day. The republicans do this particularly well. Why the media is such a slave to this nonsense baffles me.

3. Thanks to the current political environment everybody is walking on eggshells. Nobody that cares about their reputation in the media wants to appear biased because those accusations have become the base of a platform to create distrust of the media. The result is some rather bizarre reporting at times and the occasional outrageous mess...I think we can all think of an example of a media mess. It also results in some very bland reporting and a lot of bickering nonsense.