Tyler Durden wrote:
"For some reason I've never been able to fathom, many journalists seem
to be remarkably gullable, when they're told something from the right
kind of source, especially a government agency or other official source."
Chomsky (dig around on http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm) and others
have commented on this quite a bit.
If you want to hear it from the horse's mouth, I suggest you read some
of Vin Suprynowicz's columns, or his book, _Send In The Waco Killers_.
He's been a working journalist for decades, and so can describe
first-hand how this process of co-opting journalists works.