A Death in the Fourth Estate

http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=5453/%20A
A recent article mourned a death, and then its continued death.  The American Journalism Review mourned the death of facts.  After examination of coverage of the presidential election, those that love journalism were reassured that facts could not penetrate the babble.
Quite often, facts do not reach the status of being actually communicated.  While in Asia, I have not seen a single politician interviewed by CNN international or BBC.  Both networks take the radical (for American viewers) step of interviewing experts.  People who might know something.  Experts on issues.  Politicians are merely experts on telling us who to hate.  Bloggers tell us who is always wrong.  Bloggers are part of the factless media that we consume.  No one is going to fact check my blog or any other blog you read.  I hope you trust that I make every effort to be clear in my agenda since after all this is an opinion piece.  I hope we all are careful in our depiction of facts.  
I hope as media consumers we all search for facts. Don't believe us bloggers.  Accept our opinions, if you choose.  Just because we offer a link to a story, check out the story and then who wrote and published the story.  Question our facts.  Facts are dead.  And when it comes to facts, bloggers don't know CPR.