Portland Press Herald

It appears the Portland Press Herald will not stop its continuing campaign to make a laughing stock of itself by inflating a minor political brouhaha to an issue of gargantuan proportions. The paper's now in a defense mode, featuring letters applauding its position.

As all PPH readers must know, the newspaper has been having a cow over something called "The Cutler Files," the internet effort last fall of a pair of political operatives -- Dennis Bailey and Thom Rhoads -- to assure the defeat of independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler.

Enough already?

Probably not. Mostly likely we're going to continue hearing about an internet website called "The Cutler Files" for a couple more weeks. Or, at least, until Jan. 27. That's when the state's Ethics Commission says it will decide whether to fine the operators of the website $200 for inflicting their views on Mainers without proper identification.

Rarely has so much been said about so little.

Enough already?

Probably not. Mostly likely we're going to continue hearing about an internet website called "The Cutler Files" for a couple of more weeks. Or at least until Jan. 27. That's when the state Ethics Commission says it will decide whether to fine the operators of the website $200 for inflicting their views on Mainers without proper identification.

Rarely has so much been said about so little.

October 3, 2010
by mediadog

Americans' distrust of the media has reached an all-time high with perception of liberal bias far more prevalent than that of conservative bias.

The Gallup organization, which annually conducts a poll that measures the public's feeling about the media, reports that this is the fourth year in a row in which a large majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the media "to report news fully, accurately and fairly."