This Just In: Media Still Lazy, Full of Partisan Hacks

Please enjoy, with my compliments, one of the most depressing examinations of the American Media that I have read in a long time: Gonzo Gone, Rather Going, Watergate Still Here by Frank Rich.


Mr. Thompson has an opinion about the Media...

Here's another moving eulogy to both Thompson and the Media from The Daily Texan: From gonzo journalism to bootlicking.

And finally, a parting excerpt from the Frank Rich article:

Mr. Gannon, a self-promoting airhead, may well be a pawn of larger forces . . . A close reading of the transcripts of televised White House press conferences reveals that at uncannily crucial moments he was called on by the White House press secretary, Scott McClellan, to stanch tough questioning on such topics as Abu Ghraib and Mr. Rove's possible involvement in the outing of the C.I.A. spy Valerie Plame. We still don't know how this Zelig, using a false name, was given a daily White House pass every day for two years. Last weekend, Jim Pinkerton, a former official in the Reagan and Bush I White Houses, said on "Fox News Watch," no less, that such a feat "takes an incredible amount of intervention from somebody high up in the White House," that it had to be "conscious" and that "some investigation should proceed and they should find that out."

All right, I'm waiting...