Jared Childers (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jaredchilders) wrote,@ 2008-03-09 12:42:00 |
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"Are you really that acquiescent in the United States?"
Here's a good article by Glenn Greenwald about the reaction by the American press to the Scottish paper publishing the "off the record" remarks from the Obama camp:
The number one rule of the standard establishment journalist is to avoid offending the powerful because the more offense they give, the fewer favors the powerful will do for the journalists. Conversely, and by logical necessity, the more journalists please the powerful, the more favors the powerful will do for them. As Carlson put it: "People don't talk to you when you go out of your way to hurt them as you did." I can't think of any single dynamic that better explains what has happened the last eight years than that one.
Here's a good article by Glenn Greenwald about the reaction by the American press to the Scottish paper publishing the "off the record" remarks from the Obama camp:
The number one rule of the standard establishment journalist is to avoid offending the powerful because the more offense they give, the fewer favors the powerful will do for the journalists. Conversely, and by logical necessity, the more journalists please the powerful, the more favors the powerful will do for them. As Carlson put it: "People don't talk to you when you go out of your way to hurt them as you did." I can't think of any single dynamic that better explains what has happened the last eight years than that one.
