Damn, if she runs for president and promises to close the border, Todd better have a good relationship with Lowe's and Home Depot, he's going to need a lot of building materials...
Michael Crowley of Time commented on the fence in a Time blog, I liked his view of what McGinnis's stunt in moving in next to Palin does for journalism:
Which leads to what really bothers me about McGinniss's gimmick. It is bad for journalism. It plays right into the hands of the many people—including Sarah Palin, who is shrewdly ridiculing McGinniss—with an interest in portraying reporters as creeps with no sense of decency. Journalism faces a credibility crisis, and reporters' motives are under attack by outlets like Fox News, Media Matters and a thousand merciless blogs. Joe McGinniss's very clever but utterly hollow stunt, it seems to me, exacerbates that problem. That doesn't only make life harder for all his colleagues, but it makes life easier for people who want to undermine trust in the media. People just like Sarah Palin.
I'll just note that the credibility crisis he mentions pre-dates Sarah Palin's selection as John McCain's running mate in 2008, but that the MSM did itself no credit with the way that it covered Palin in comparison to the way it covered Barack Obama. The credibility crisis is caused in large part by MSM bias and by refusal to acknowledge that bias, pure and simple.
2 comments:
Sending Todd to Home Depot - LOL
That's because all too many reporters are creeps with no sense of decency.
Journalism faces a credibility crisis because millions of former consumers of their product found them to be non credible.
Joe McGinniss just being honest in his dishonesty. Look inward Michael Crowley. You don't condemn the bias, you just condemn this particular tactic.
As my friend Borepatch says, The Dinosaurs smell a change in the air, and roar their defiance.
Post a Comment