We're really fucked . . .

if the most credible source of journalism in America is The Onion. But according to Ed Pilolla that's exactly what's happening:

For starters, the Onion ran a front-page story under the headline "Dead Iraqi would have loved democracy."

How true, how true. Of course, we barely see any dead Iraqis in American newspapers or on American TV.

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Still, the Onion was just getting warmed up. Open it to page 2 and read a news brief on "Vital info on Iraqi chemical weapons provided by U.S. company that made them."

A darn serious newspaper like the Onion has shown itself to be different than, say, Fox News.

Fox is the network that reported on March 20 that Saddam Hussein was killed in the first night's surprise cruise missile attack. Problem was, he probably wasn't. Then, like many, many, many other news outlets, Fox subsequently reported that if he wasn't killed, then Iraqi command and control had been "decapitated." Problem was, it wasn't.

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Someday, at some time in the future, there will be a day of reckoning for the American media. Future generations will ask why the coverage of the Vietnam war was so radically anti-government at all levels, while many of the same journalists were so passive during the invasion of Iraq.

If those future generations pull up archive video of, say, Fox News, they might think that Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden are the same person.

But not if they read the Onion.

It's a good read, I kind of quoted the meat of it, but go ahead and read the whole thing anyway.