Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Mainstream Media

David Sirota on media conventional wisdom in all of its brainlessness:

A lot has been written about how, when reporters spend too much time in Washington, D.C., their brains start to rot, and they start spewing back insider gossip and stereotype that is so removed from reality, you think you are reading the rantings of patients in an insane asylum. Case in point is Washington Post reporter Dan Balz - one of the most intellectually impaired reporters working today.

Balz has made a career parroting whatever Beltway conventional wisdom is out there, regardless of how polls show it is totally disconnected from reality. He regularly writes declarative statements that have literally no connection to anything other than what he and his insulated cocktail party friends have decided in a vacuum is what America believes.
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1 comment:

Elaine said...

Sen Clinton will get credit for her position should she run for higher office. You get points for national security credibility when you vote for war regardless of the outcome

Well, Clinton would get credit for being hawkish because guys like Balz report it that way. If the press weren't so intent on promoting the myth that Republicans go to war more therefore they're better for national security, we would all be better off.

I agree that citing poll data is irrelevant.