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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Mark Halperin (yes him) on the current media landscape:
The Sherrod story is a reminder — much like the 2004 assault on John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth — that the old media are often swayed by controversies pushed by the conservative new media. In many quarters of the old media, there is concern about not appearing liberally biased, so stories emanating from the right are given more weight and less scrutiny. Additionally, the conservative new media, particularly Fox News Channel and talk radio, are commercially successful, so the implicit logic followed by old-media decisionmakers is that if something is gaining currency in those precincts, it is a phenomenon that must be given attention. Most dangerously, conservative new media will often produce content that is so provocative and incendiary that the old media find it irresistible.

... all of us who are involved in politics and media should take a moment to recognize that we have hit a low point. And let all of us resolve that, having hit bottom, it is time to start climbing out of the pit.
He offers no solution, but a good start would be for the old media to ignore the conservative new media (or at least treat it as suspect and proceed very carefully) and stick to developing their own stories.



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He offers no solution, but a good start would be for the old media to ignore the conservative new media (or at least treat it as suspect and proceed very carefully) and stick to developing their own stories.

I have a great idea! They could have a secret listserv where they "develop" all of the stories and decide on the group consensus. They could call it "DinoList" or something like that.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7/29/2010 6:36 AM  

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