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The Politico's John Harris admits now what he denied last year

"Important stories . . . disappear with barely a whisper. Trivial stories . . . can dominate the campaign narrative for days"
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  • Monday, May 26, 2008 07:00 AM

    @ rwanderman

    Because Joan Walsh is the editor of Salon, I always interpret her pieces as "editorials", and not unbiased journalism. The reason you may be confused about this is that her editorials are closer to real journalism than most of the pieces at sites like Politico.

    The lazy journalism that has blurred the lines between editorials and reporting seems to be the root of the problem here. How can this problem be solved when a generation of journalists haved been trained under such skewed values?

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