So even a court of law has ruled that there was a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein...

I thought all liberals and the MSM thought that every word from a judge, especially a Clinton appointed one, was like the word of God.

Oh yeah...not if those words help a Republican.

No matter what the result in the election this year, the MSM must be replaced...the MSM must be crushed...

The Bush campaign should have touted this earlier...it's a great retort to the Kerry crowd of appeasers...

the MSM must be crushed

Kind of hyperbolic, isn't it?

Modified, altered, ignored, changed, subverted, worked-around, whatever ... but "crushed?"

Sobering.

Unfortuntely the relevant footnote:

22. CBSNews.com, “Court Rules: Al Qaida, Iraq Linked,”

does not reveal the citation for the case. I would like to read the exact wording of the judgment.

For hm

Smith I, 262 F. Supp. 2d at 232 ...

ggarmon,

thank you!

For the MSM: I vote for "crushed." If I woke up tomorrow and ABC, CBS, and NBC were permenantly off the air, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

They are EVIL.

Sydney,

You can add the NY Ties, The LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe and others to that list as well.

They are all insignificant in my book.

When do RICO laws not apply to the MSM? Don't they use current events and controversy to create revenue; to create a product to sell or operate in the marketplace? Is there not an inherent perverse incentive to disinform and agitate? Are they really so indemnified from selling defective products and services? Free speech is one thing; commercial speech is another. Political reporting and political advertising are linked. The incested MSM commercial economy for candidate advertising is approaching something akin to extortion if correction of slothful, defective reporting only occurs if you purchase advertising to correct it. Charging campaigns and candidates huge sums to correct the false, negligent or wrongfully withheld material facts provided as a product by commercial services MSM calls "the news" raises basic questions that should be pursued. When one looks at the orchestrations between MSM members, such as the NYT and CBS over the 380 missing tons, don't RICO statutes come into play at some point. IMHO, the MSM uses willful disinformation and exploits internal error to drive up revenues and brand value. It's an ugly thought, but it's an ugly practice they've turned into million dollar salaries for themselves. What about those fine lines between commerce, opinion, product and fraud? The question of guilty knowledge behind the MSM misreporting has become palpable. If that they should do it predatorily to jack up revenues may well be another thing indeed.

Interesting take. Maybe NY's spitzer will look into it, but I doubt it.

Yeah. No one's in a hurry to fix it.. yet. But some say Michael Moore was compelled to quietly abandon Documentary status and enter the AA under the Fiction catagory to avoid a salivating pack of class action litigators with the Cali Consumer Protection Act in hand. Check out: "It's Over. The Fat Man Sang" http://scyllacharybdis.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_scyllacharybdis_archive.html

Willem, no one is in a hurry to fix it because maybe its not broke but stil you have a really really good point there, I agree