The DNC is - according Dan McCarthy in my latest SECTATOR is blowing itself up - maybe you don't notice because it has a pretty large and unfortunately successful PR department - discussed at length in this MONK debate (luv em on audio just as much as the C-Span version with audience participation/voting) -

The demise of the 'MSM' and the 'its ok' - is more to my view like the old Hollywood system - lots of behind the sense machiavellianism - making it so difficult for ordinary people to even find out what the hell is happening...

The movie LA CONFIDENTIAL comes to mind...Rolo Tamassi - is all over most of what Ben Bradley Jr tries to pan of as excuses for abhorrent and just out right corrupt practices that are a hallmark of his and his colleagues entire careers...

His use - and misuse of the Muller Report is enough to barf and literally choke on it....it is the encapsulazation of the mindset of the successful - in his case - son of the Giant...and of course one reads in his bio what is Ben Jr doing now that he is in comfy semi-retirement?

Working on a book about DANIEL ELLSBERG - YET ANOTHER HAGOGRAPHY ABOUT one of THE A SEMINAL 'FOUNDING FATHER'S' OF THE majical mystery tour that kicked off why journalism is floundering in the wasteland of for profit lying and stealing and war-mongering...

Contrast that with MT bemoaning the conformist mentality (again an 'accomplishment' of the Bradly era - from him and his esteemed colleagues) in newsrooms - with he kind of lone wolf personality disorder independent journo's of the golden era - like Sy Hersh - who were pricks extraordinaire - who did not festoon their wall with Pulitzers - (although they earned some) to ensure bigger and bigger advances on more and more book contracts...

And is it any wonder 1/4 to 1/3 of the country is a news desert?

This is why MT and Glenn Greenwald are such stalwarts - because of the fucking Ben Bradley Jr effect - and like hollywood in that post depression 'golden era' it was incestuously inbred....at the top...and thus more easily managed and controlled...