It would seem that "all the news that's fit to print" is not so much. A celebrated New York Times staff writer, Jayson Blair, has been caught fabricating stories on everything from the Washington DC sniper attacks to the grieving of fallen soldier’s families from Operation Iraqi Freedom. This has sparked an investigation into how deeply this fraud is embedded into the Times.

Yes, Hillary's favorite paper, and the favorite paper of most of the liberal world, along with the San Francisco Chronicle, is saddled with articles written by a person who never actually went to many of the places from which he allegedly reported. His submissions were rife with stories full of innuendo, facts that weren't quite the facts and basic untruths. The investigation that is underway will probe into whether or not this is where it ends or if the infection has spread. Of course, to those of us who employ common sense into our thought process this shouldn't raise too much of an eyebrow as a lot of what is written in the New York Times and other liberal-leaning publications has been held to question as to it's bias towards the liberal agenda for many years. Now the relevant question is how much of this bias was concocted.

I have long been a proponent of holding the alphabet media's feet to the fire. Too many times amazing and unbelievable stories have graced the front pages only to be clarified or corrected days later on page 48 underneath the liposuction advertisement. The bias has even gone further then that. All too often the alphabet media has turned down good money from legitimate customers who want to buy full-page ads to combat what they know to be inaccurate pearls of wisdom and opinions only to be rejected by the editors and the powers that be at these big name outlets of truth, justice and the American way as too inflammatory or "not in line with the opinions of the paper." This is the great art of herding the masses into the corral of their opinions, not facts. It holds a lot of sway with those who do not understand that in order to get the true story one must read everything you can from both sides of the aisle and then divine the truth from somewhere in between.

The news is something that should never be editorialized although today that is much the way it is reported. The news needs to be based strictly on the facts and reported in the same manner. If an outlet, be it television, radio, the Internet or newsprint, wants to editorialize they should preface it as such. In days gone by news anchors would have to switch cameras and positions before they could espouse their opinions as an editorial under a banner or crude graphic that designated the segment as such. There was a clear division from the news being reported and commentary by the news anchor. Today, the clear distinction between news and commentary is a rarity at best. Each reporter inserts his or her opinion into the story they are reporting in hopes of making a name themselves or creating a unique style while at the same time slanting the facts of the story one way or the other. It is impossible not to slant a story when opinion is injected into it.

I welcome the investigation at the New York Times. In fact, I would relish seeing all of the newspapers in the country, along with every other news outlet, begin investigations on each other in order to seek out the untruths, fabrications and fact stretches that are obviously the hidden status quo in the editorial back rooms of the alphabet media. The bloodletting of those who practice and promote "opinion-news” could only be a welcome event for those of us who are tired of reading op-ed articles that are masquerading as news items. The feeding frenzy of these predators would be spectacular.

Perhaps when this "battle royal" commences, if we could be so lucky, it would turn out to spotlight those who have embraced half-truths and innuendo in the stories that we have been feeding on for the past 50 years. Perhaps it will spark those who believe everything that they read to do a bit more investigating on their own before they form an opinion, create a sign with some slogan on it that testifies to their ignorance and march around the centers of big cities protesting non-truths that are harbored by organizing groups with ulterior motives...oh what a wonderful world that would be!!

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials, Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.