Brian Carney writes in the WSJ:
Meanwhile, 51% of those surveyed thought the press was “trying to hurt” Mrs. Palin with its coverage.
Perhaps most troubling for the press corps, though, was this finding: “55% said media bias is a bigger problem for the electoral process than large campaign donations.”
No doubt that’ the reason the editors of the Washington Post keep on harping on campaign donations. They hope the the public won’t scrutinize them too closely.
(via memeorandum)
Read Ocean Guy’s devastating attack on the media “cocoon”
Journalists are stuck on stupid and almost completely unable to realize that alternative news sources are accessible to a much larger percentage of the general public. And another fact that journalists and editors are seemingly oblivious to, is that the percentage of the general public that is routinely well INFORMED, is informed because they are using a wide variety of news sources. No longer are we only reading the NYT and Washington Post and paying attention to the network news.
For at least a decade, the most informed segment of our population, the neighborhood and office opinion leaders, have been using that entire spectrum of news sources to inform ourselves. We still read the “old media†but… as news junkies and internauts, we have a vast array of additional news sources right at our fingertips. The distributed intelligence and collective experience of the blogosphere alone is awesome, but blogs are only a small portion of the total information available. Meanwhile, Journalists have responded to this change in news distribution by covering their ears and eyes and loudly singing, “LaLa Lalala, LaLa Lalala…†in a futile attempt to ignore their pesky critical audience.
And as if you need proof the Counterterrorism blog reports:
I see one after another of the mainstream media outlets which have made important contributions to the factual underpinnings of the counter-terrorism effort dropping off that beat. Editors in the print media are shifting terrorism experts on their staffs towards investigations of political candidates. At least three such reporters at three major papers are now chasing Sarah Palin stories (I haven’t had time to chase down everybody in “the business”).
The CT blog notes that it is especially unfortunate that these specialists are being moved away from the counterterrorism beat at the same time that the Bush administration is acting ever more aggressively against terror organizations as its term approaches the end.
This leads Instapundit to note wryly:
SHIFTING RESOURCES TO FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
