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Zoinks!

And there's the point. It's not scandals that are stupid, but this scandal. Right? Else, why not make this point all the time and not just when there's a scandal that hurts the "side" they lean towards.

My point is that TPM doesn't really care about the media engaging in gossip. As I said, they are themselves gossip focused. What they care about is finding ways to make the public angry at the media for covering it rather than the politician who sent lewd photos of himself to women who weren't his wife.





Lolirony! Nope. I'd be saying the exact thing. Ask yourself this though: If the scandal were involving a Republican, do you think TPM would have written what they did? And do you think you would be defending their attempt to distract the issue away from the politician who screwed up and on to the media covering it? Plank in your own eye first, ok?

Edited, Jun 17th 2011 12:49pm by gbaji

But it does apparently preclude TPM complaining about the media coverage of a scandal unless the scandal involves a Democrat, with the bizarre insistence that instead of using their live air time to ask a Democratic Party leader about a rumored resignation because of said scandal, the media should instead devote that live air time to broadcasting the agenda of his Party. Because that's how we reward married politicians who text lewd pictures of themselves to women who are not their wife. Yup. We give their party leaders more air time than normal to tell the public about their agenda. That makes so much sense! Oh wait! It doesn't. Not even a teeny tiny bit.

Right, and it's for this reason that if there were any way to make the press a public entity without creating a massive conflict of interest, I would gladly do so. A good journalist should be a professional, like a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher... tell you what you NEED to hear, not merely what you want to hear. The societal value of the job has always been intended to create an informed public, not to be entertaining. Besides which, they do a ****** job of being entertaining.