The Media Should Report News, Not Be News
July 21, 2008 – 8:42 pmI think I have had about enough of various mainstream media outlets (the New York Times is frequently guilty of this practice) talking about itself or other mainstream media outlets as if it is somehow newsworthy. It isn’t. The New York Times is just a newspaper. There are many newspapers. There is no reason for the Associated Press to release a story about why or why not the New York Times would or would publish an op-ed piece by John McCain. As if publishing the piece would make the right wing blowhards like the New York Times any more. They won’t. The perception that the New York Times is a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party has been held for many years (for good reason) and won’t go away on one decision.
It is interesting that sometimes professional pundits will say that certain memebers of the mainstream media love John McCain while other times they are guilty of favoring Obama. Which one is it? Is McCain a maverick or a traditional conservative? Is he a darling of the media or not? Too many people are trying to have it both ways in this election and it needs to stop now.
You would think with so many issues going on in the world today, the AP and other media outlets would have their hands full with real news that voters could use.
One Response to “The Media Should Report News, Not Be News”
I don’t read US newspapers to get the real news about what’s going on in the US.
This is gonzo journalism carried to an illogical extreme, where editors become the biggest solipsists of all. A journalist shouldn’t make his own news, unless it’s to plant a cream pie in Rupert Murdoch’s face.
Now that’s the kind of news I’d pay to see made.
By Vince Williams on Jul 22, 2008