>The media shows itself yet again to have lost its way and to be subservient to interests - primarily government/enforcement - rather than truth, accuracy and timeliness in reporting.

I know where you're going with this and I agree to some degree. But I think in the US the mainstream media is heavily biased to one party. I wouldn't say that the US meida has been a friend of the Bush administration.

Anyway. What gets me about the London police shooting is that it was SO blatan. I mean, how do you rough up and shoot a man who was just simply sitting and reading a news paper and was posing no threat to anyone without even giving him a chance to ID himself? Is this shoot first and ask questions later mentality?