08.01.10
Tales from the DVR: Sunday Afternoon
Watching Howie Kurtz’s Reliable Sources program on CNN and enjoying a bunch of Democratic partisans (professional media propagandists like Chip Reid and Frank Sesno) sitting around wondering what’s become of their credibility. How can people who presume to set and shape the debate in this country through their high media profiles be so un-self-aware? It’s appalling that they (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, WaPo, the newsweeklies, etc.) are capable of such shameless pro-Democratic partisan hackery, but without any sense that their manipulations are an abrogation of their first public duties. You can still make money and keep the public informed simultaneously, right?
And, contrary to what panelist Lauren Ashburn says, nobody cares about objectivity in media –unless, of course, objectivity is what they’re calling context now. But who expects for-profit media corporations with ideological identities to really inform the electorate?
Un-self-aware idiots do.
