And thank God, Ezra Klein swoops in with some much needed perspective, explaining what should be obvious but actually isn’t:
The crucial problem in this discussion comes here: The press isn’t allow to admit that they construct these narratives at all, and so can’t transparently justify why they choose to use one and not another. Which creates mistrust and anger.
It also gives rise to a more fundamental incoherence at the center of contemporary campaign reporting: Ambinder waves this media conversation away as a “Greenwaldian debate about the duties, obligations and frustrations of the press” because he thinks of all this as media criticism. But this isn’t about the press, it’s about the campaign. And he’s the guy we all look to for that type of coverage. His job is to report on the motivations and actions and effects of the major political players in the election. But there is arguably no political player as important in the election as the aggregate media. But the media won’t report on itself. Which means they can’t really report on the campaign: They can only report on the campaign-minus-the-media, which is an impossible thing to do, and requires them to invent all sorts of explanations for how the things that they’re doing are happening. This tends to take the form of an imaginary median voter whose interests and opinions they imagine are driving their coverage and who is thus the real actor in the election, but it makes everything extremely meta, erodes any measure of accountability, and demands that a lot of coverage present itself as willfully obtuse.
Go read his full post, please.
December 4, 2008 at 12:08 am
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