Letters to the Editor
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@Yellow Dog - re: "Partisanship versus Bias"
Not only is the American style of "objective, above it all, omniscient" reporting and commentary dishonest; it's dull.
The British press is interesting; the writing is good.
American commentary is predictable; it has the feel, almost always, of something you'd expect to get from a technician running a word processor, not a writer.
The narrow paradigm, where the horse race and soap opera meet, and where issues are only occasionally addressed (and when they are, only superficially), gives voters very little to work with.
From election cycle to election cycle, it's a feedback loop. It's devolved into a "Let 'em eat cake" form of political journalism.
It's insulting, when you throw in the low melodrama of broadcast news. Chris Matthews, with what he said last night, may have unwittingly undermined the basic foundation of the whole enterprise. It's a statement, which, if it was studied thoroughly acted upon by serious media reformers, might put Matthews and his ilk out of work.
As a sampling of intelligent, literate opinion, writers on this blog are saying they're leaving MSM reporting in droves.
The dogs here don't like the dog food.
The product is harming democracy, not advancing or promoting it.