Media adding to economic troubles: economic experts

David Soberman's quote is only partially correct. Media also make things worse by not reporting fully. Reporting half truths is the same as lying. For example consider the current $875 million economic debacle of the 2010 Olympics Athlete's Village in Vancouver. If local mainstream news media would have done their job years ago and reported in a nonpartisan manner Canadian taxpayers would have been able to put more pressure on VANOC including their political partners, politicians, sponsors and suppliers to reveal financial details, which would have allowed taxpayers to intervene before Canada hit the wall. Instead, Vancouver new mayor, Gregor Robertson did media's job for them, but unfortunately it's too late to make a difference. Canadian taxpayers are fully on the hook while newspapers print front page headlines of the carnage and pretend they couldn't see it coming. Social media journalists and bloggers have tried to engage mainstream news media for years in an effort to have them report more accurately about their Olympic advertisers. But why would they cut their own throats, especially at a time when the 2010 Olympics is such a cash cow for news media and local newspapers especially? It's no wonder newspapers are going bankrupt. Rule #1 - Serve your customer. Taxpayers are your customer, not the IOC