UPDATE: Nicole Belle, over at Crooks and Liars, has posted about Craig Crawford getting fed up with "point of view reporting" and quitting MSNBC. She ends her piece with this:
I do think that collectively we're reaching a form of critical mass on being tired of opinion media masquerading as journalism. There will always be a certain percentage of the population that needs their pre-conceived notions reinforced, but by and large, Americans don't trust "journalists" any more, with reason. And this stand of Crawford's--as contradictory as it appears on its face--may be another crack in the dam.
I agree totally with the ending clause of the penultimate sentence, and hope the dam bursts soon -- but there's no way I'm going to hold my breath.
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Insert clever comment about strings and nauseams here.
String Cheese Incident.
I am missing the daily words of wisdom.
As Adrian Belew once penned, "Don't hold your breath, It'll make you blue."
American journalism appears to have died a quiet and painless death, leaving in its wake a feeble approximation of its former self.
I pity our children, who are likely to think that this is real "journalism."
It's true, most people don't even recognize that, in regard to "news," there's a difference between fact and opinion. Oh, they think they know, but they think it's better to "balance" out the truth with a lie and think that's journalism.
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