Reply #47: No media conspiracy here... just a collection of dumbasses... [View All]

[redqueen]

with no concern whatsoever for the fate of our democracy.


"Why have so many journalists taken it upon themselves to decide for their readers which candidates are electable and which aren't? On the road with the Dean campaign, Nation reporter Matt Taibbi posed that very question to the candidate's press contingent:

"When I asked the reporters on the plane what the value of this kind of reporting was, I got an interesting answer. No fewer than four journalists replied to the effect that unless the electability issue was addressed, 'someone like Kucinich' might get the nomination.

"'Hell, if it came down to a battle of position papers, Dennis Kucinich might win,' laughed Jackson Baker of the Memphis Flyer, incidentally not a horse-racer and one of the true good guys on the plane.

"'I think its value is that it helps to explain to the reader why I'm spending so much time with one candidate,' said Mark Silva of the Orlando Sentinel. 'He needs to know why I'm reporting so much on Howard Dean, as opposed to, say, Dennis Kucinich.'"