'The most prominent experiment in dumbing down American culture'
'One-liners were allowed to stand in for policy positions, and dodging serious questions became acceptable. In short, the California race came to represent pack journalism at its worst - not just pack journalism, pack entertainment journalism. As at an awful movie première, political journalists - famously surly and disgruntled people - were pushed to the side of the red carpet to shout questions at the star as he passed. And for some reason they smilingly went along with it.
'And try as you might, you'd be hard-pressed to find another campaign where a serious candidate with no experience and no record ran for governor while dodging all debates except the one where he got the questions in advance.
'None of this, understand, is a knock on Arnold. He just played the hand the media dealt him. If everyone running for office were offered the opportunity to do what he did, they'd gratefully accept. The point is they simply haven't been allowed to do it - until now.' - - from an editorial in the CS Monitor.
'Hello, Karl!'
National media to blame for Schwarzenegger fiasco
Big media owes it to the country to tell the full story about our potential leaders. They've woefully let us down.
'It really boggles the mind. Once again the national media has shown what a gutless, pandering institution it has largely become, treating the California recall election as if it were a horserace instead of committing itself to finding out the truth about Arnold Schwarzenegger's bizarre history.
'A thousand media editorialists, columnists and talking heads should have shouted the obvious from the rooftops before the California election - Arnold Schwarzenegger is not fit to be governor of California or any other state. Instead, big media once again sold out its role as champion of the truth in exchange for that of horserace promoter.' - - from an OpEd by Don Williams.
NBC supports politically partisan whore Leno
ejecting criticism about the propriety of allowing douche-nozzle Jay Leno to introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory speech in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, NBC execs said yesterday that the network fully supported the talk-show prostitute.
"I was aware Jay was going to do it," said Jeff Zucker, NBC executive and repug party hack. "I did not and do not have a problem with it."
But Robert Thompson, a professor of media and television studies at Syracuse University, said: "NBC is taking a big risk. There's a big culture war raging in this country. Leno could be alienating 50 percent of his audience. These guys are supposed to be equal opportunity in their targets. Coming from an identifiable perspective throws off the calculus."
'Hello, Jay!'
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