What role has the media played in all this?

[Nitemare]

I'm thinking of the media as an instigator, always trying to cause controversy to seel some advertising spots.
They will look forever over the good and only broadcast the negative.
They will make cutting edge revelations without having the proof to back them up first...*cough* the Palestinian celebration hoax, Gore won the election....no wait...Bush won...no wait..umm no comment..

I think the media should be held responsible for some of the crap going on and the fallback of their erroneous reporting.
Currently if they are wrong all they have to do is put a small retraction and apology on page 95 which the average person will never see.

I enjoy true journalism and all, just stop with the speculations...(how many aircraft were involved during the 9-11 fiasco...a $hitload according to the media, the bombs under GW bridge...a hoax...80% of what the media reports is unproven imho.

I think they should be held liable to false claims.

 

[TRUMPHENT]

You are severely misguided. The networks lost hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more in advertising by devoting their air time to the coverage. I only get NBC where I live. It did get repetitious. But I started to note the lack of commercials. The media did not make this. They reported it. You need to talk to your school counselors about a refund. You did not get your money's worth for whatever education you have. The most important news story since WW2, a disaster of unimaginable porportion, and you think the media created this for ratings? I don't know about the other channels, or venues, but NBC did an excellent job of reporting the verifiable facts.