Posted on 03/09/2010 12:15:29 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
For the Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Laura Washington laments the degraded state of American newspapers. She says that “hard news” has been replaced by “fluff and titillating trash.” Washington also cries that real news is an “endangered species.” But if newspaper writing has been laid low, Laura Washington’s column is an example of that wretched state as opposed to an example of the opposite as this is one of the messiest columns I’ve seen in a while. And naturally it’s all because of raaaacism according to Washington.
Washington starts her piece scolding the news media for missing the Scott Lee Cohen story. Cohen, the winning Democrat Lt. Gov. candidate, had a strange history of violence and prostitution that no media operative seemed to ferret out before Illinois Democrats nominated him in February’s primary. Washington also laments all the many job cuts in the media landscape.
Worse, according to Washington, is that the reporters that are left are “being diverted to cover meaningless fluff and titillating trash.”
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
You misspelled it:
“raaaaaaasiss” is correct.
She points out that newspapers are hiring felons in the name of diversity, apparently, and that the DNC is putting people forward for office who have serious ethical problems and the press isn’t vetting them.
There might be what we used to call reverse racism involved in all this, so maybe she isn’t that far off the mark.
I know, right?
That’s how Cynthia McKinney says it...and she should know if anyone is raaaaasiss!
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