I think the answer is that Mr. Hollywood Reporter has no idea of the exact meaning of "inordinate," and thinks it's just a swellegant way of saying "lots."

Kind of like scribes who use "penultimate" to mean "the best" instead of the more-mundane, but accurate, "next to last."

The news media has had it all its own way for many years. Journalists have felt free to flay the pubic with its supposed wit, while despising the rubes who consume their swil and pay the bills.

Times are changing. Technology is putting more power in the hands of the people. And some of the people are not very happy with the "masters" who have been force feeding them garbage for so long.

Blythe, and your post above about the Baby Bells, both hit on the same problem and the growing solution. The media has essentially had a liberal monopoly on the dissemination of news - until now.

There has been much written lately about the "norming" of liberal and Leftist bias in the newsroom. They believe that the "elites" have the solutions to all our problems, if only the sheeple would follow their lead.

But the monopoly is over. I haven't listened to a major network newscast, read a newspaper, or a news magazine in forever. Yet I am better informed about world events than all of my acquaintances. But now I bypass the biased filter of the MSM and go straight to source material.

When you treat your customers with disdain, they will drop you like a bad habit when given a reasonable replacement. The phone companies and the MSM are in for a rude awakening.

And I'm lovin' it.

Amen, Bruce!

It is time the MSM lost some of their power
because they abuse it terribly all the time.

When Ronald Reagan was president I lived
in Canada, still do, and we always watched
the American news.

From what I saw and heard I gathered that
President Reagan was a cold and cruel man.
The stories of the mentally ill being thrown
out on the streets with nowhere to go,
the stopping of this or that program. The
usual democratic spin that is used today on
President Bush.

If I believed this and I did, what about
the rest of the world. (please excuse my
lack of punctuation as my keyboard is
wondky today) did they believe it.

I expect, if they do not become a blog
reader they are cheerfully believing what
the MSM tell them. However, they have
the internet to go to now and it makes a
difference. The truth is out there! Just
go and find it. Learn from the bloggers and
the comments made by readers.

President Reagan deserved all the respect
he was shown this week, every minute of it.
His wife as well. She was seen to be a cold
and controlling wife by the media. So very
wrong. What they had is something everyone wants and they were blessed to have it.

The power is still there, and they are going
to abuse it even more as the election comes
nearer. They cannot get past the anger and
hate they feel for the loss of the last election and are fighting with no holds barred. Just lie, exaggerate and spin and
America could end up with Kerry and that is
not a good thing.

More people are seeing the fact of the bias
and are learning how they have been used
by the MSM and will stop watching and listening as I have and many others.

In fact, the three main anchors were complaining about there being too much
coverage of the death and life of Mr. Reagan and no-one cared what they tought. They were ignored as far as I have heard or read.

Of course, they were being dems, not
anchors and that is not what they are for,
they are supposed to be fair, and they certainly fail at that.

Keep blogging and we will keep learning.