Again, light posting, because I’m working my fingers to the bone over here. However, I’m taking a cookie and juice break – shades of grammar school, except the cookie is caramel chocolate chip from the store deli, and the juice is diet cranberry pomegranate – and checking the intarwebz to see what I’ve been missing.
A few favorite stops – The Anchoress joins Ed Morrissey in wondering if and when the press will smarten up, but the answer is sadly predictable:
The self-recrimination of the press on its failures to ask questions or do investigative work only applies in one direction. And if we ever see another GOP president, the press will go full-jackal on him or her, using both Iraq AND the Obama presidency as justification for their their fervent displays of doubt and skepticism.
However, even then, they will never accuse themselves regarding Global Warming; they will never say “we failed to ask questions,” because on that issue, it is personal for them, much in the same way that passing something called Health Care Reform has become “personal” for Obama and for Speaker Pelosi.
The press is always happy to run with “J’accuse!” when the accused are not their fellow progressives. But on the topic of their own reporting, “I confess” is limited to weak tea admissions on minor issues by ombudsmen who keep their fingers in the dam of reader outrage. Contrast that with bloggers, who when they make mistakes, tend to promptly correct them – and who make no effort to hid our bias. The media deserves to die, and if bloggers and the public in general is indulging in a little schadenfreude, well, who can blame us?
However – I’m going to enjoy the rest of my break – here’s something funny I found on Facebook, and I heartily recommend it:
That is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
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