Bashing Democrats, a Beltway Press Addiction

[rodeodance]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/bashing-democrats-a-belt_b_21282.html
Bashing Democrats, a Beltway Press Addiction


Promoting a new fishing memoir during a recent swing through his native South, former New York Times editor Howell Raines met with some readers who quizzed him about the state of politics. A Mobile Press-Register reporter in attendance wrote, "Raines, who throws in zingers in his memoir criticizing the Wall St. Journal editorial page, Fox News, and the current administration, wryly answers that the only thing that might make him return to journalism would be 'a third term for George Bush.'

"He adds, as well, that 'the Democratic party is in collapse.'"


Assuming that second Raines quote is accurate, read it again and marvel. The former editor of the New York Times insists the Democratic Party is "in collapse." Forget the fact that a recent national poll showed a majority of Americans prefer Democrats over Republicans on every major issue, Raines, still feeding off the Beltway culture he inhabited for so long, can't resist mocking Democrats in public. The knee-jerk response is telling and utterly predictable since the D.C. press elite appear to be unable for any sustained period of time to report bad news about Republicans without habitually noting things are just as bad, if not worse, for Democrats. So spooked have journalists become to the charge of 'liberal bias' that they've become afraid of the facts and the consequences of reporting them..............

[depakid]

1. They ought to be spooked by the FACT that

more and more people realize that they're little more than right wing corporatist shills. They've lost all credibility among a GROWING number of people- and their circulation and viewership is in a major decline- a trend that will continue.

They hitched their wagons to corrupt and falling "stars"- and they're paying the inevitable price. People (especially young people) see right through them and aren't buying their shit anymore. People laught at articles they publish on university campuses accross the country. That's got to be embarrassing.

[grasswire]

2. Howell who?

'Nuff said.