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Karl Rove's media birds chirp about Obama's "arrogance"

The press's personality-obsessed coverage of elections is as predictable as it is destructive and depressing.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, July 31, 2008 05:24 AM

    Dumber than a bag of hair

    I used to think that the news is ratings-driven and shallow personality-based attacks are what viewers want to see/read. But now I'm convinced that the majority of beltway journalists are just too dirt stupid to cover an election any other way. Surely a moment of reflection would make a journalist of any minimal intelligence realize that the Cokie Roberts-style "It's out there" argument for covering sleaze and inanity makes no sense if he/she is the one actually putting it out there?

    —Thelma Ritter Read Thelma Ritter's other letters

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