Why is the American media so broken?

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Tuesday October 26, 2010 · 6:25 PM PDT

2010/10/26 · 18:25

The Japanese Daily Yomiuri I got in my mailbox this morning included last weekend's Outlook section from the Washington Post as a package deal, and I could only marvel at how different the two papers were in their attitude towards their relative countries. The cover story of the Outlook section was the professional troll Charles Murray's "The New Elite", a list of trivia questions (do you know who replaced Bob Barker?) to demonstrate how the liberals reading the Post are, "increasingly, not of" America.

That a hard-right commentator has this opinion is not very surprising to me. What I do wonder is how the Washington Post decided his views were fit for publication. I'm not saying the Washington Post should be filtering its opinion articles by political view; rather, it's accepting the point of his article, which is entirely to slander his audience based on an irrelevant cultural standard, which surprises me as a regular reader of the Daily Yomiuri. Aren't there shared values to discuss, or actual political issues to talk about? Why does the opinion section avoid them? In fact, isn't that the entire problem with the American media at large?

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Tuesday June 29, 2010 · 7:07 PM PDT

2010/06/29 · 19:07

It seems like Politico has established a new standard for what political journalism means. I mean, TNR hasn't been a quality establishment in a long time, but before today I'd have at least assumed that they could recognize what journalism looks like.

Nope, this just showed up in my mailbox, as their featured story of the month:

Dear TNR Society Member:

Following is an advance copy of Gabriel Sherman's account of John Edwards' mysterious life in North Carolina. In the aftermath of the 2008 presidential campaign, Edwards was said to be distraught. He lost a precipitous amount of weight, and advisers even told reporters at the time that they worried he might be suicidal. Since then, things have only gotten worse. But Edwards is refusing to follow in the tradition of other scandal-plagued figures like Tiger Woods and Eliot Spitzer, who initially kept low profiles after they were publicly humiliated. Just how is the disgraced former senator and presidential candidate keeping himself busy these days? As a TNR Society subscriber, you get early access.

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Friday July 03, 2009 · 3:47 PM PDT

2009/07/03 · 15:47

Let's start with the old favorite:

FreeRepublic

Do any of these clowns realize that the political rule book is about to be torn up? Her supporters don’t care if she resigned, it’s just another talking point for the press. If she runs in 2012 she’ll get the nomination.

18 posted on Friday, July 03, 2009 5:19:42 PM by toddausauras

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Thursday May 21, 2009 · 12:58 PM PDT

2009/05/21 · 12:58

Obama is finally getting off the ground a grand project that should have happened a long time ago: making the federal government communicative, open, and transparent, bringing the White House into the 21st century.

That means it's time for you to pitch in! Your ideas, and your comments on other people's ideas, will be selected for comment by Obama's CIO. So read on and vote!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/...

Here’s how the public engagement process will work. It will take place in 3 phases: Brainstorming, Discussion, and Drafting.

Beginning today, we will have a brainstorming session for suggesting ideas for the open government recommendations. You can vote on suggested ideas or add your own.

Then on June 3rd, the most compelling ideas from the brainstorming will be fleshed out on a weblog in a discussion phase. On June 15th, we will invite you to use a wiki to draft recommendations in collaborative fashion.

On the flip side, I will relate for you what happened when this site first launched so you can get an idea of who heard about the site first.

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Tuesday May 05, 2009 · 9:56 PM PDT

2009/05/05 · 21:56

Erick Erickson is the editor-in-chief of RedState.

Erick Erickson is the model Republican blogger to serve in political office.

Erick Erickson is shaming the entire city council of Macon, Georgia.

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 3:44 PM PDT

2009/04/13 · 15:44

Remember when Tom Tancredo (R-CO) was included in the GOP debates for President of the United States? Even after he posted videos on YouTube like this one? Luckily, the American electorate had little of that, and Tancredo did not run for reelection to his House seat.

But now Tancredo is back on the radar, endorsingan organization with the ominous name Youth for Western Civilization, now appearing on college campuses near you. Awesome! It's like a cross between Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty and... the KKK! Here's Goal Number One on their agenda:

Inspire Western youth to organize on the basis of identity, with pride in their heritage and their history, and counter radical multiculturalism on campus.

Before you jump over the fold, remember: The GOP allowed this guy to participate in the primary race for President.

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Saturday March 21, 2009 · 4:20 PM PDT

2009/03/21 · 16:20

After reading Matt Taibbi's article on the scope of the recession and the very real government acquiescence that allowed it to happen, I watched Obama's interview with Jay Leno and was surprised to find he spent half the interview talking about AIG. I think it's good that I did those things in this order because it gave me a little insight into how Obama plans to respond to the situation.

If you follow along with the Leno interview you'll see that Obama has an accurate understanding of the AIG situation, even naming the same player as Taibbi:

OBAMA: Then they decided -- some smart person [Joseph Cassano] decided, let's put a hedge fund on top of the insurance company and let's sell these derivative products to banks all around the world -- which are basically guarantees or insurance policies on all these sub-prime mortgages.

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Thursday December 18, 2008 · 8:22 AM PST

2008/12/18 · 08:22

Please, STOP IT!

Why are so many on both sides so hot about this? As a gay man, I was very disappointed at first to learn of this. Then it hit me. It’s not that Warren’s invitation to the inauguration is a problem. The point is that he and I BOTH have a place at the table.

I would have pushed for a different choice. But for heaven’s sake, could we please stop demonizing each other?

Randy, CSMonitor.com

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 8:56 PM PDT

2008/10/23 · 20:56

Election clerks are always getting up to such crazy antics! Even before they count the votes.

IndyStar

A Republican county election clerk distributed copies of an apparent chain letter referring to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as a "young, black Adolf Hitler" to two employees but later told police she intended it to be a joke.

The employees, who had voted for Obama in Indiana's Democratic primary, discovered the letters at their desks after returning from Labor Day weekend, Deputy Sheriff Doug Cox said in a police report made public this week. One of the workers complained, and surveillance video showed Johnson County Clerk Jill Jackson placing an item one worker's desk at 5:27 p.m. on the Friday of Labor Day weekend, Cox said.

So, she, uh, printed out a chain letter and put it on someone's desk. Maybe she did it ironically? Some Republicans do have a great sense of humor. Well, below the fold, the complete letter. Cover your children's eyes, please.

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Friday August 22, 2008 · 8:25 PM PDT

2008/08/22 · 20:25

News media are concluding Barack Obama is about to choose Joe Biden for VP.

Great news for McCain!

McCain was a POW in Vietnam, and the combined military experience of Obama and Biden is zero.

That's right, ZERO! The Democrats have screwed the pooch on this one. The worst thing that happened to Biden was having his wife and daughter die in a car crash... McCain was a POW.

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Thursday July 24, 2008 · 3:54 PM PDT

2008/07/24 · 15:54

I'm an intern in Barney Frank's DC office. Below the jump is a post from my blog about

An utter rejection of GOP leadership that happened today
My chat with Barney about the Federal Reserve

I don't usually advertise on Kos, but I thought you might like to read this one because while it won't make headlines, the vote cast today demonstrates serious disunity in the GOP.

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Saturday June 14, 2008 · 6:55 AM PDT

2008/06/14 · 06:55

Yesterday, Lindsey Graham, who wants a constitutional amendment to remove habeas corpus from people on American soil, said this:

...he is concerned that detainees will shop for sympathetic judges while challenging issues including their treatment, food and lodging.

"I thought habeas corpus was just the right to demand to know why you're in jail," my dad said to me after reading that article.

"Yup."

"So why is he saying this stuff about demanding better food?"

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