BOOM!!!! First Political Thread: Sad State of the Media Today

[wally]

I liked this opinion piece on CNN (of all places) about the sorry state of public media:


http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/opinion/kurtz-state-of-the-union/index.html?hpt=hp_bn3


[Will Cain, writer for TheBlaze.com, told me on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that the media have been "intellectually neutered" because "we don't hire people who are capable of looking deeper into the issues," preferring former political strategists and reporters. He was talking about television, and he has a point. But the problem goes beyond personnel decisions.

The article got me thinking about what venues exist for obtaining political news. Where do you get your political news?

[USS Utah]

A related article, perhaps, from the Yale undergrad journal of politics:

http://thepolitic.org/yellow-journalism-of-the-21st-century/

[Uncle Ted]

Robert Gibbs: I was told not to 'acknowledge' drones (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/gibbs-i-was-told-dont-admit-drones-88025.html?hp=f1)




Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says he was instructed when he joined the administration not to “acknowledge” the existence of America’s drones program.

“When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, you’re not even to acknowledge the drone program,” he said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes.” “You’re not even to discuss that it exists.”

Gibbs, who stressed that he was speaking only for himself, called that dynamic “crazy” and said that the lack of transparency surrounding the drones program “undermines” broader confidence in government.


“Here’s what’s inherently crazy about that proposition,” he said. “You’re being asked a question based on reporting of a program that exists. So you’re the official government spokesperson acting as if the entire program … pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. I think in many ways and I think what the president has seen — and I have not talked to him about this, I want to be careful. This is my opinion. But I think what the president has seen is our denial of the existence of the program when it’s obviously happening undermines people’s confidence overall in the decisions that their government makes.”


I get the feeling that maybe our government likes the sad state of the media today.

[DU Ute]

Where do you get your political news?

Mostly online from a bunch of different sources. The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are the only TV news shows I watch.