Bush, Blair on the Media

From a very forceful speech by Blair comes something that's concerning so many of us, Old Media's doom and gloom attitude to the War on Terror:

They (the terrorists) play our own media with a shrewdness that would be the envy of many a political party. Every act of carnage adds to the death toll.

And at a townhall meeting in West Virginia, comes this question/comment( followed by thunderous applause) to President Bush:

Q They (the Press) just want to focus on another car bomb, or they just want to focus on some more bloodshed, or they just want to focus on how they don't agree with you and what you're doing, when they don't even probably know how you're doing what you're doing anyway...

A One of the things that we've got to value is the fact that we do have a media, free media, that's able to do what they want to do...And one of the -- there's word of mouth, there's blogs, there's Internet, there's all kinds of ways to communicate which is literally changing the way people are getting their information. And so if you're concerned, I would suggest that you reach out to some of the groups that are supporting the troops, that have got Internet sites, and just keep the word -- keep the word moving. And that's one way to deal with an issue without suppressing a free press. We will never do that in America. I mean, the minute we start trying to suppress our press, we look like the Taliban.

Don't believe the media is bias? Read this.