Phrases like "elite media" and "liberal media" dominate the conversation when any middle American or conservative American begins to discuss the array of organizations that comprise our daily dose of information about the world. In hist latest column titled Liberal Jihad, Bill O'Reilly discusses the utter chaos that the media brings upon the average American about the War on Terror through their biased reporting. A war where we are the good guys and they are the bad guys no longer exists in the detached world of the media; those days are long gone. The media no longer works for the country, the media has become it's own entity with its own objectives. It carries out the means necessary to achieve the ends with as almost as much cruelty as is in the heart of terrorist who walks into a crowded marketplace and detonates a bomb taped around his waste.

What makes the media even more dangerous is that you have large group with tremendous influence all pulling the same way. That way is decidedly left-leaning. America has always had characters from all across the spectrum. That's a part of being a melting pot. However, ultimately speaking, the various lunatics out there have canceled each other out leaving a nation of moderates.

Because of the news media, this is no longer the case. It's clearly no longer about the profits, either. (If this were the case, every cable news network would have been scrambling to copy Fox News a long time ago.) The new determining factor in the media is the agenda which is often that of its controlling individual or group. This change in the ultimate goal for the media is the result of the revolution that has taken the western world by an unwilling storm. Millions of westerners are fed terms such as "civil liberties," "racial," "imperialism,"  and the left wing all-time favorite, "constitutionality." We're more concerned about protecting our civil libraries in the library when we checkout books than we are actually making sure we still are here and have a library to go to and checkout books...or so we're told by the media.

That's just the problem; we're told by the media what to do and what to believe all cleverly disguised in the form of a report.

This brings along another characteristic of the media. Arrogance. They know better than us. Just like Marx knew better than the common worker. Just like the radical left, they know what's best for America and anyone who thinks otherwise is branded either a bigot or sick. The level of arrogance with the media is simply astounding.

We start with a recent comment I heard made on, where else, a news show. On this show, a media industry expert was discussing various aspects of the media and how it reports. He made the comment that the "media polices itself" and the hypocrisy meter went through the roof on that one. We here from media elites about the role of the press as a check and balance on the government here in America. Especially when it comes to Republican presidencies, we continually here about issues of trust. We cannot trust the government but we can trust the media is the message.

The media has no check and balance besides itself. A grand total of five organizations now control over 90% of mass media outlets in America. This is dangerous my friends. That means only 5 CEO's are ultimately responsible for what you hear on the news. Where's the check and balance in that?

Finally, we come to the current war between Israel and Hezbollah. The recent media coverage is a true testament to the arrogant media. We begin with Hezbollah in Lebanon. There is one theme I have heard across all the networks; that reporters are very quickly shown sites where Israel supposedly killed "x" number of civilians in their attack. Reporters are whisked around and shown blankets that cover the "dead" killed in the attacks. Hezbollah has a very tight control on what gets seen; yet the media will listen and report their figures all day long.

I've heard numerous body counts from the media for the "civilian" Lebanese killed in the fighting. Putting aside that fact that we almost never hear casualty reports from Hezbollah, we take word for word what the Lebanese Prime Minister has to say about the death total. This is the same Prime Minister who leads a government that obviously doesn't have control of its southern territory. Where do you think he gets the figures from? Common sense would say Hezbollah. What makes these figures reliable? I have no idea; but the media reports them the same way they reported the figure of 600 dead according to the Lebanese PM well over a week ago. The total reported today was 575. I suppose 25 of the original six hundred suddenly decided to come back to us from the dead.

Another prime example of the media's arrogance in the rash of kidnappings by terrorist organizations over the past five years. These groups have become master manipulators of the media in there rush to get the story. The media is clueless (or doesn't want to be clued in for ideological reasons) as to their use in the plans of terrorists. They display the videos and make the reports on the person or peopled kidnapped and give an outlet to terrorists who want to make a case. It is quite clear that had the media practiced what we've come to call common sense and not shown the videos, the initial kidnappings would never have been effective.

The lesson here is that the media is not just biased or liberal. It's downright dangerous. The question for us conservatives is what do we do about it? Do we sit back and talk about it like that annoying coworker or do we jump into action?