December 3, 2006

Dereliction of duty
Why 'journalists' and the Washington press corpse are quickly losing their relevance.

Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the internet, or even Comedy Central. The threat comes from inside. It comes from journalists still taking it up the ass... uh, sorry... being afraid to do what journalists were put on this green earth to do.

What is it about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that makes them so refreshing and attractive to a wide variety of viewers (including those so-important younger ones)? I would argue that, more than anything else, it is that they enthusiastically call bullshit.
While the MSM is happily doing face-plants in the presidential pudenta.
One thing our media never acknowledges is that conservative pundits play under a total separate set of rules than liberal pundits. Specifically, conservative pundits are generally indistinguishable from political operatives. They aren't just writing interesting columns about things they're interested in, they're advancing an agenda, which includes electing Republicans, often with little or no regard for truth. If they can get away with it, and they frequently do, they'll just make stuff up and lie.

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