Your Ruling Class is trying to think.
Meanwhile, on what was once the supposed other side of the adversarial lens, our Elite Media proves yet again that he as no idea what the concept of "holding people accountable" even means anymore.
From Salon (h/t Jay Rosen):
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The point is that {Meet the Press host David] Gregory, like [CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed] Henry, cannot even begin to comprehend the issue. It's not that these media figures fail to perform their assigned function or consciously decide that they won't. They don't even conceive of their purpose in this way, because holding government officials accountable is not actually their purpose. With some accidental exceptions, the corporations which own these media outlets don't choose people for these positions who want to or who will perform these accountability functions. They choose the ones who have no interest in doing so, no ability to do so, and who simply won't -- and thus don't.
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This is what the media and the punditocracy's fetishitic obsession with Centrism and Objectivity (as opposed to facts and truth) have wrought.
UPDATE: From Crooks and Liars...Brave Sir Robin Runs Away!
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So is Fat Tony sitting on us or shitting on us? Or is there some significant difference?
(Surfed on in through your Twitter feed)
I like to imagine that if these media-types were taken down to the Gulf, forced to look at the oil stretching for miles and miles, washing ashore in rookeries and on beautiful beaches; and be FORCED to look at the hundreds (representing thousands, probably millions) of dead and dying birds, dolphins, fish and PEOPLE, they would, suddenly, magically, amazingly: "GET IT"; that is understand in a shimmering Zen-like experience exactly WHY our Freedom of The Press is written into our Constitution: Why it is the FIRST Amendment.
I'd hope that glimmer of understanding would stay with them for the rest of their lives, or at least till the News Hour that evening.
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