"The media. People actually go to school for that?"
Yes they do but when they are thrown out into the real world many get disillusioned. While the transformation from college to reality is often mindboggling to students of any vocation, the media offers that in spades. First there is the matter of economics, journalists get paid very little since they all start off in small markets to get the necessary experience. Second it is always a matter of how presentable you look. Looking good, even sexy, could mean a future in television where maybe there are larger financial rewards at the end of the rainbow. Not looking good, or just average, relegates the newbie to a less glamorous position in radio or print. In that medium the wide-eyed neophyte must excell in their writing and "digging" abilities. Newsmakers, movers and shakers shun the microphone in favor of TV cameras where too often that brand of journalism is compromised by glamor or perceived glamor.
A strong contender to all that disillutionism is the proverbial muzzle. What a journalist knows may never appear in the media for fear of lawsuits. Each of their investigative (they all are)reports are carefully scrutinized by editors, news directors and often their respective attorneys. Compromises to protect from potential lawsuits are made, resulting in watered-down stories that hold little interest to the public. I am not Horatio at the Bridge to come to the aid of journalists everywhere. I do know of what I speak and yes, neophyte journalists have gone to school and received a well-rounded education. Some tough it out and climb a very difficult ladder to success, many don't.

Yes, darn that press. How dare they focus on the news. What gives them the right? Our government should silence. What do they think this is? A free country?

Wow gimpel!!!!!!!!!!!! Somehow I don't seem to remember all the indignation when Bill Clinton got a little oral sex in the White House.

For almost 2 years every time I turned a TV on there was a different REPUBLICAN congressman or senator being interviewed about the "SEX SCANDAL". And if it wasn't a congressman or senator being interviewed, it was KEN STARR.... And every other day there were LEAKS coming out of Ken Starr's office.

And when Clinton bombed Afghanistan, all you could see were republican senators and congressmen yelling "WAGGING THE DOG" "WAGGING THE DOG". Now they're yelling he didn't do enough!!!!

And one reason they have reported on the Foley case as much as they have is there have been at least 14 stories told by everyone even remotely involved. THE REPUBLICANS ARE EVEN POINTING FINGERS AT EACH OTHER. LOL

No, when you get right down to it the coverage of THIS SCANDAL hasn't been overplayed by the media at all.

A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN at the VERY LEAST sending sexually suggestive e-mails to 16 year old pages and then apparently being covered up AND THEN LIED about by the SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.

No No not too much coverage at all. Afterall THIS IS THE PARTY OF "MORAL VALUES" LMAO

Good Grief mydtwc, you're spin is grossly inaccurate. There was a whole lot between "wag the dog" and "didn't do enough."

When wag the dog happened all Mr. Clinton was trying to do was to get the press off of his sexual escapades.

Can you prove that Mr. Hastert lied? Does slander mean anything to you? Of course not, you’re a democrat, so it doesn't.

Also, tell us right out. Are you saying that it was alright for Mr. Clinton to break a wedding convenent with his wife to get a little oral sex but Mr. Foley and the Republican Party should be hung because send sexually suggestive thoughts to a 16 year old boy? There wasn't any sex just suggestive ideas.

If this is the case then what about all of the sexually suggestive advertisements that bombard the television airwaves, Internet, and printed media? Underaged children see that.

Children under 16 can go out to My Space or You Tube and see hard core graphic sex. Why aren't the Democrats raising sand about that?

mydtwc, come down off that self made, arrogant, liberal pedestal and contribute something worth while about moving forward to make America better together, not working against the Republicans.

Good grief, Mr. Foley is gone, never to return to politics that is to the Republican Party. One good thing about Republican that you seem to ignore, they do not re-elect criminals.

Foley was wrong and he is gone.