24 March 2010
What’s Wrong With Political News
Posted by Connor under: Politics .
Conor Friedersdorf nails it:
If the political blogosphere covered basketball games, we’d not only be told about shots, makes, and misses, but every rotation of the ball on the way to the hoop. “He shoots, the ball appears to be on course, it’s getting closer and still seems like it’ll make it, I give it a 90 percent chance of going in, IT HITS THE BACK RIM, it didn’t make it, it definitely appears as though it may bounce out, it’s going to bounce on the rim a second time, now it’s perched on the lip and may go in or out — an instant poll of the crowd confirms that 75 percent of people think it’ll wind up a miss — my God it’s actually falling into the basket, this moment it is falling through the net, it’s a basket!”
10 April 2010 at 5:11 am.
Ya, well they’ve got air time to fill. And, of course, one wouldn’t be able to get an audience for real news, real news has to bleed, preferentially, red, white, and blue. Political news is the Roman Circus of the 21st century. (The New Frontier got it sooooo wrong)