Questioning Media Coverage of Gaza: Few Answers

The Media Coverage of Gaza: Many Questions, Few Answers MediaChannel.org
This link connects to an excellent piece of writing on how hard it is to get accurate information, about an event that captures the world's attention, from the mainstream media. If you are interested in the Middle East, the news that Israel is moving settlers out of the Gaza Strip would be something that would galvanize your attention, for sure.
This BBC article has a poignant quality about it. Does BBC qualify as MSM?

"MSM" - Upon beginning South by Southwest I didn't know what MSM meant. It didn't take me long to get the idea that it was something bad, to be avoided. But I kept watching television and reading my local newspaper, because I needed to know what was happening in my world. Besides, we pay dearly for all of America's Top 180 Dish Network TV channels, and 7 daily newspapers. Then I had another problem - "TMI" - too much information; my head spun sometimes. With this paragraph I have others, cliches and jargon.

But I will keep on: I qualify as a couch potato, a news junkie, a computer nerd; and to some of my friends and family, weird.
I got this way a long time ago. The eldest of five children, I grew up in a sparsely populated Western state. Our news came over the radio and from magazines that came in the mail. The radio was clear to my ears but a bit ambiguous. I had to use my imagination to fill in the visuals. Our magazines helped with that part. Life Magazine, for example, had prize winning news photographers whose work enthralled me. And the paper upon which the images were printed had good heft, unlike the tissue of today.
There was a tradition of interest in national and world affairs in my family. And my state was usually rather evenly divided, politically. Decades later I am still interested in national and world affairs but things have changed for us all, no matter where, when and how we started as news junkies.
I have become what some might call an amateur journalist, or perhaps a neighborhood gossip. But it does not feel like that to me. I feel more like a member of a rather obscure world community. We regularly gather in front of our screens - "in the town square" - (TPM Cafe, for example). We yell at each other occasionally, often console or admire each other, take sides a lot, and always keep each other more informed than we were yesterday. I think I'll come back often.