As we sit in America waiting to see what May 1 has in store for us (the day that many Mexicans have promised to walk off the jobs and boycott all of our businesses), it has been interesting to see the media's refusal to cover an increasingly escalating conflict in our neighbor to the north.

Once again, the blogosphere has come to the rescue. As with the CBS forged documents scandal, the blogosphere has gone where MSM fears to tread.

While there is much I do not know about the Six Nations conflict in Canada, I do know it is reaching riotous proportions. Blogs have risen informing interested individuals as to how they can go to join the protestors, and how to give material support to those protestors already there. But what is glaringly absent is objective material on the reason for this conflict. A google search for "six nations" turns up many op-ed pieces and blogs but little of the hard hitting journalism you would expect to accompany a conflict that threatens to turn violent.

I believe it is time we stop letting the mainstream media dictate the information we receive. Time that we begin utilizing alternative news sources to get the facts on a situation. The MSM has consistently and appallingly failed to provide us with the hard hitting news coverage that we need to make informed decisions, and has concentrated instead on trying to subvert the American electoral process. They are becoming increasingly irrelevant, and I believe it's time we stop using them as our primary source of information.