Monday, April 6, 2015

Gawker calls out the press for their sad-ass reporting after NY Mag HRC piece....

Gawker calls out the press for their "bullshit" political reporting, lacks all politics...

As the 2016 presidential election draws closer, America's political press corps is warming up for what they do best: drone on about nothing of consequence

Advocates of press freedom are fond of quoting Thomas Jefferson when he said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." They are less fond of quoting Thomas Jefferson when he said, "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” Jefferson was no fool. He understood both the vital importance of a free press to a democratic society, and the propensity of journalists to squander that freedom on absolute bullshit.
So why do reporters do this? Because it is easy. It is easier to cover campaigns like this, and it requires less thought, and it leaves journalists less prone to being attacked by one side or another, and it is, in general, purely speculative rubbish which cannot be truly refuted. So it is what we get. 





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