Friday, November 16, 2007

The Debate and The Media

Some random thoughts:

  • I didn't watch it, but it seems like the media was eager to bury Hillary in order to resurrect her shortly afterward.
  • All I want to know is when the media stopped being in the business of reporting news and started to get into the business of manufacturing it (e.g. Meet The Press, et al.).
  • The media seems to overcompensate for being called "liberal" by trying to bash Democrats as much as possible, so as to prove their "independence". This is silly. The Guardian is a liberal publication out of the UK, but it has a sterling reputation. Were the media to actually present the facts and ask informative questions, might the bias accusations might diminish?
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.