press corps

by Rich Gardner | 08.14.2011

This is the most maddening of the Washington DC press corps' failings, this constant resort to false equivalence, the idea that "both sides do it." The conclusion of this constantly-repeated tale is, of course, that the "Goldilocks" conclusion gets continually reinforced, the idea that if "this bowl is too hot (or leftist) and if this bowl is too cold (too right-wing) then the one in the middle, the "sensible" centrist, must be just right."

Matt Bai of the WaPo examines the Republican debate of August 11th and writes a few very sensible paragraphs about how extremely reactionary the candidates all are on taxes. But then he veers off the rails with this abominable paragraph:

A reason to write a nice letter

by Rich Gardner | 12.12.2008

Hey, MSNBC did something good! Yippee!

The blog County Fair within the website Media Matters has been busily documenting the wretched, sorry spectacle over the last few weeks of the traditional media panting, slavering, grasping and lusting to write the next "Whitewater" story or to kick off the next "Monica Lewinsky" scandal. America apparently has a bunch of middle-school-age adolescents in charge of much of the traditional media.

The good news is that we saw some pushback on MSNBC Live on 11 December.

WaPo editorial misinforms

by Rich Gardner | 11.30.2008

Really good history of Iraq War for people that know absolutely nothing about the issue. Not very enlightening for those who do.

Re: "Road Map in Iraq" Nov 30

Accomplishments?

by Rich Gardner | 04.28.2008

So just what exactly DID either the Bush Administration or the press corps accomplish over the past 7+ years?

Several years back, I heard about a high school girls cross-country track team. For a reason I forget, it didn't have much in the way of leadership for a whole school year.