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elfs"A Secret Pentagon Study of Iraq has come up with three options -- injecting more troops into Iraq, shrinking the force but staying longer or pulling out, The Washington Post reported Monday." (Associated Press report)
For it's next trick, the Associated Press will tell us that you have two choices every morning: get up or stay in bed. If you do get up, you can take a shower, a bath, or skip it. Brad Delong calls this kind of reporting "Journamalism," which is to journalism as truthiness[?] is to truth, and often bemoans this kind of crap with "Why oh why can't we have a better press corp?" Of course, he's also betting that with hard-hitting investigative reporting like this, the Washington Post will probably not survive the decade as a financially viable institution.
The article then goes on to interview a few talking heads about discussing this amazing new discovery, and concludes with a big and somewhat repetitive collection of paragraphs about how McCain's all for option one because the other two are "unnacceptable." To John McCain, at any rate.
For it's next trick, the Associated Press will tell us that you have two choices every morning: get up or stay in bed. If you do get up, you can take a shower, a bath, or skip it. Brad Delong calls this kind of reporting "Journamalism," which is to journalism as truthiness[?] is to truth, and often bemoans this kind of crap with "Why oh why can't we have a better press corp?" Of course, he's also betting that with hard-hitting investigative reporting like this, the Washington Post will probably not survive the decade as a financially viable institution.
The article then goes on to interview a few talking heads about discussing this amazing new discovery, and concludes with a big and somewhat repetitive collection of paragraphs about how McCain's all for option one because the other two are "unnacceptable." To John McCain, at any rate.
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Date: 2006-11-20 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-21 12:59 am (UTC)The worst the administration (any administration) can do to "punish" a reporter is to stop inviting him to the press briefings.
And I think that one of the best things that could happen to American government, the press corp, and for Americans in general is if the White House press briefing room was just plain shut down for good. The White House can issue press releases via it's website, and the "journalists" can actually start doing actual research again, instead of just reprinting press releases and trying to come up with idiotic "gotcha questions".
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Date: 2006-11-20 11:56 pm (UTC)