In the wake of the New York Times resignations, NBC News looked at declining trust in the media and identified two culprits: Conservative, pro-corporate bias and the Fox News Channel.I suspect that there's corelation if not causation. With Fox News, it became clear that there was an alternate point of view and once that meme is launched, people will start to wonder who's right. That's not the kind of thing that reflects well on Big Media.
The reasons the US entered WWII were many and varied, but I would not be out of line to say they included the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Anglophilism (is that a word?), and fear of a resurgent Germany. At the time we joined in, there were many patriotic Americans who believed that Europe was only getting itself into another one of it's wars, for which it had a long inglorious history, and that the US had no reason to choose sides. Given what we knew at the time, they had every reason to believe they were right. I am pretty sure that there were only a few people, if any at all, who said that Hitler represented an evil that should be destroyed.Now, in retrospect, the clearest most recognized reason for celebrating the Allied victory over Nazi Germany was because, in fact, Hitler was evil and he was bringing his nation to ruin because of his psychotic, unrestrained capacity to inflict harm on Germans and people of other nations. All of the original reasons for defeating Nazi Germany, all of the reasons that people understood at the beginning of the war, all of the reasons that the soldiers who fought the war knew of as they boarded the transports to cross the English Channel, or as they lay shivering in their foxhole in the cold Ardennes winter night, every single one of those reasons, pales in comparison to what we now accept as the real reason we should celebrate that great victory. Our world is better because Hitler is dead, the evil he was, is gone.[…]
– Major Diggs Cleveland, US Army, Camp Doha, Kuwait
Laura Callahan, the deputy CIO of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was placed on paid administrative leave last week […] On her resume, Callahan, who was appointed to the position on April 1, said she received her academic degrees, including a doctorate in computer information systems, from Hamilton University in Evanston, Wyo.Hawspipe commentsHowever, the congressmen, including Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), contend that according to published reports, Hamilton isn't licensed by that state, nor is the school accredited by the U.S. Department of Education. The congressmen said Hamilton is a "diploma mill."
[…] In March 2000, she was one of two White House officials accused of threatening Northrop Grumman Corp. workers with jail unless they kept quiet about the disappearance of thousands of White House e-mails, according to press reports at the time. Callahan was the White House webmaster under the Clinton administration
In this case, a three minute Google search might have raised suspicion of her purported academic credentials. According to her previous employer's website she was a sales coordinator with a BA in psychology from the University of Washington. [source]- [source, source]