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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