Not surprising to see that Hilary Clinton's polling numbers went down after it was revealed that her story about running under sniper fire in Bosnia was a fabrication.

People with high public profiles are the first people to really suffer from being Tubed. There is enough archival news footage out there to hoist them by their own petards.

As the internet becomes more pervasive in society at what point will the rhetoric that the media feeds the public come back to bite big media?

What I mean is this: Big media acts as a megaphone for so much of the political machinery in society. At what point will the audience want to hold newspapers/TV stations for their journalistic responsibilities? You can forgive a blogger for holding forth about whatever he or she believes in. Shouldn't we be holding big media to a higher standard? If we did would it have been possible to get the public (in the English speaking world anyway) to support the war in Iraq?

And why doesn't big media report on the build up of supplies and weapons by the US in the Gulf? You can read about this stuff on web sites, but hardly a sniff in the major newspapers...