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“We are, collectively, much like eight-year-olds chasing a soccer ball. Instead of finding ways of creating fresh, original, high-impact journalism, we’re way too eager to chase the same story everyone else is chasing, which is too often the easy story and too often the simplistic story—and too often the story that misses what’s going on.”
—Peter Baker, New York Times White House correspondent,
says the Obama Administration complaints
about superficial press coverage aren’t all wrong,
in Ken Auletta, “Non-Stop News,” The New Yorker, Jan. 25, 2009
says the Obama Administration complaints
about superficial press coverage aren’t all wrong,
in Ken Auletta, “Non-Stop News,” The New Yorker, Jan. 25, 2009
(Thanks to alert WORDster Lillian Pease)
Editor’s Note: We can’t define news, but we know it when we see it. We think.
Today’s effin’ freezin’ foto
Anyone who thinks the White House press corps is anything more than the President’s mouthpiece’s Amen chorus isn’t watching … they all report the same stuff pretty much the same way …
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