SocraticGadfly: How weak and genuflecting the mainstream establishmentarian media is

November 07, 2006

How weak and genuflecting the mainstream establishmentarian media is

This Washington Post story about GOP robocalls, the ones specifically designed to look like Democratic calls so that voters get mad at Democratic candidates, has as much bite as dentures put on a grinding wheel. Here’s Example A of the insipidity:
Whether "robo-calls" are positive or negative, mean-spirited or humorous …

This exemplifies, in one sentence, everything wrong with the Post article.

First, it conflates get-out-the-vote and support-our-candidate, legal, robocalls, with the clearly illegal ones the National Republican Congressional Committee has been running. Second, it treats the whole thing as a big joke, which is just what the NRCC wants.

The New York Times story
Part of the way to handle this? If/when the next Democrat (or Green, or something like that, should we be so lucky), gets elected President, refuse to recognize reporters from papers like the Post at presidential press conferences.

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