A Rare Rant Against The MSM Posted by David Shorr

I usually stay away from complaining about media bias, too much scapegoating and orthodoxy for my taste. On the other hand, the steady stream of the-voters-don't-care-about-Iraq-anymore makes me want to scream. Let's look at the underlying assumption here. They're basically saying that the electorate is only capable of caring about one issue at a time. Talk about insulting our intelligence!

Call me old-fashioned, but even in the Age of Britney, one assumes that journalists have some recollection of their function as the Fourth Estate. Collapsing the national discourse down to one and only one issue would seem to contradict this civic function. They're single-issue political analyzers (and I use the term loosely). Are political editors and reporters just tired with Iraq (that's soooo 2006)? Are the politics of the economy more fun to write about? Is it just simpler to focus on one issue (keep it simple)?

If this truly is a historic election, surely the American people can handle at least a few different issues -- heck, they might even hunger for them. To paraphrase our president, this is the soft patronization of low expectations.

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