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Elizabeth Edwards to the press: "Do your job, so we can — as voters — do ours."
Submitted by bizgrrl on Sun, 2008/04/27 - 8:20am.
Elizabeth Edwards asks the press to help the voters of North Carolina and the country to discuss the issues so that informed decisions can be made.
But I am saying that every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the whole picture.
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Who is responsible for the veil of silence over Senator Biden? Or Senator Dodd? Or Gov. Tom Vilsack? Or Senator Sam Brownback on the Republican side?
The decision was probably made by the same people who decided that Fred Thompson was a serious candidate.
Will the media listen? Do they care? Will the story be about her bitterness that John is not longer a candidate? It's the economy stupid. It's about paying for decent healthcare. It's about our soldiers dying in Iraq. It's about the billions of dollars spent in Iraq while our infrastructure is crumbling and American citizens are not asked to sacrifice but given money to go shopping.
For the most part, journalists are a "path of least resistance" bunch. Repeating a trope is easier than analysis and gives you enough time to backslap at the pub after deadline.
Rush Limbaugh said that journalists are American culture's self-appointed secular priests. It's turgid metaphor, but they definitely hold some sort of place of special consideration in our society. Difference between them and priests is that priests don't have the "This is just my trade" cop out. And the difference between Limbaugh and a journalist is that the journalist doesn't have the "this is just entertainment" cop out when calling for open insurrection of Obama gets the presidency.
True happiness is knowing you are a hypocrite. -- Ivor Cutler
On the other hand, there is also silence about Ralph Nader.
:)
And if it weren't for the media and their obsession over narratives we no doubt would have never known John Edward's "daddy worked in the mill..."
Whatever.
For the most part, journalists are a "path of least resistance" bunch. Repeating a trope is easier than analysis and gives you enough time to backslap at the pub after deadline.
Rush Limbaugh said that journalists are American culture's self-appointed secular priests. It's turgid metaphor, but they definitely hold some sort of place of special consideration in our society. Difference between them and priests is that priests don't have the "This is just my trade" cop out. And the difference between Limbaugh and a journalist is that the journalist doesn't have the "this is just entertainment" cop out when calling for open insurrection of Obama gets the presidency.
True happiness is knowing you are a hypocrite. -- Ivor Cutler
I'd have her babies!
Elizabeth Edwards for President!!
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson
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