May 05, 2008
Man bites dog
Stop the presses! The media is in the tank for the Obamassiah.
You knew that, didn't you?
The newsworthy part of the story is the person pointing the finger at the journos: one of their own.
Salon's editor-in-chief Joan Walsh -- no neocon she -- dished on her colleagues during an appearance on a Sunday morning gabfest -- and revealed that Hillary is not exactly their favorite, either, which may go a long way toward explaining the way this campaign is being covered.
I was struck when I got to Iowa and New Hampshire in January by how our media colleagues were just swooning over Barack Obama. That is not too strong a word. They were swooning.
I was at a speech, I remember it, I will write about it some day, in Manchester, and every, the biggest names in our business were there, and they were, they could repeat some of his speech lines to one another. It was like a Bruce Springsteen concert where the fans sing along.
And, you know, I respected it to some extent. He's a towering political figure. Of our generation, he's probably the best politician, he's inspiring. And, reporters, white reporters, black reporters, reporters of every race, we want to get beyond racism in America. So, he was, he was inspiring, I understood it, they're humans, they responded.
The downside though is that they hate, hate Hillary Clinton, most of them. Hate is not too strong a word.
But -- but, they're journalists! They're professionals! They're supposed to be impartial!
Yeah.
And I'm Napolean Bonaparte.
Video of Walsh's interview here.
Posted by Mike Lief at May 5, 2008 11:19 AM
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