The Nation - "Media Coverage of Shutdown Threat: A Journalistic ‘Disgrace’"

[TomCADem]

Here is a nice piece by the Nation highlighting how the corporate media's ongoing practice of false equivalence as journalism helps enable the right wing extremists who now run the Republican party:

http://www.thenation.com/blog/176404/media-coverage-shutdown-threat-journalistic-disgrace#

Probably the smartest thing I read all weekend on the pending government shutdown, and the debt ceiling crisis, came from James Fallows. And, courtesy of the often laughable (and dangerous) Washington Post editorial section, we get yet another example in this parade of disgrace this morning.

At his Atlantic blog, Fallow slammed media for once again practicing “false equivalence,” but does provide links to a few folks who have gotten it right (see below). Read the whole thing as he traces a historic fiasco we haven’t seen in decades, maybe over a century


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Today the Post published this editorial drivel:

Ultimately, the grown-ups in the room will have to do their jobs, which in a democracy with divided government means compromising for the common good. That means Mr. Boehner, his counterpart in the Senate, Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), minority leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the president. Both sides are inordinately concerned with making sure that, if catastrophe comes, the other side takes the political hit. In truth, none of their reputations stands to benefit. Of course, we get ths kind of “analysis” from Politico all the time

[BlancheSplanchnik]

1. thanks for this.saving to read later. n/t

[Wilms]

2. ^