The Irony of the New Media

Sylvester Brown raises an interesting point in his article for the St. Louis Times Dispatch "Conyers looks for News in the Wrong Places". We all know that the corporate mainstream media is a business out to serve its own financial interests much more than it is the public interest. Michael Jackson and the Runaway Bride become sagas that consume our daily lives and conversations while conspiracies between American and British governments that led to the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives get covered up because they aren't sexy enough.
IT takes new and alternative media sources to uncover the important issues that don't pay to report. IT takes bloggers like Daily Kos and filmmakers like Michael Moore to try to bring some truth to the world we live in. Sadly and Ironically, they have less credibility than the mainstream media while their work is more genuine and their product is more worthwhile than the corporate media we have been conditioned to believe.