04.06.07
Our media: foolish, shallow, easily distracted
Sigh — it’s hard to believe that we can have a national media so uniformly bad, especially in the sphere of television. It used to be thought that watching television would make you stupid; it now appears that being on television is even worse.
Glenn Greenwald dissects the phenomenon today. The issue at hand now is, of course, Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria. Never mind that a group of GOP representatives are also visiting (the media and the White House are quiet about that). Never mind that Hastert, a Representative under Clinton, visited Columbia and told its leaders to ignore Clinton.
No, all that falls under IOKIYAR. But also the Right also expresses complete shock and outraged at the photo of Pelosi wearing a scarf in a mosque. Yet this same group of outraged journalists and columnists was strangely (and utterly) silent when Laura Bush wore a scarf in a mosque. IOKIYAR.
Read Glenn’s piece this morning and mourn the passing of intelligent journalism.
UPDATE: More IOKIYAR: Newt Gingrich’s trip to the Middle East when he was Speaker of the House and during which he bashed Clinton policy.
