Sunday, March 02, 2008

Newsweek Defends The Media

Quoted from http://www.newsweek.com/id/117850:

 

The Myth of Objectivity | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com

 

She tried to make a joke of it. At the debate in Cleveland last week, Hillary Clinton brought up a "Saturday Night Live" skit about journalists fawning over Barack Obama at a mock debate. "Maybe we should ask Barack if he's comfortable and needs another pillow," said Clinton. Humor is often a substitute for anger, and if Clinton wasn't all that funny, maybe it is because she is sore at the press for seeming to go easier on her opponent. She has a point, but the truth about the media and the campaign cannot be caricatured simply as the deification of Obama and the hounding of Clinton...

 

Read the rest to become annoyed.

 

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