Give me a Damn Break

More illegitimate whining about the media. From Peter Daou

it’s about understanding what happens when skillfully-crafted pro-GOP storylines are injected into the American bloodstream by the likes of Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, Paula Zahn, Dana Milbank, Kyra Phillips, Cokie Roberts, Tom Brokaw, Jim VandeHei, Bob Schieffer, Bill Schneider, Tim Russert, Howard Fineman, Norah O'Donnell, Elizabeth Bumiller, Adam Nagourney, Bob Woodward, and their ilk, not to mention rabid partisans like Limbaugh, Coulter, and Hannity.

Now liberals have very legitimate gripes with the news media's coverage of the pre-invasion Iraq, inappropriate statements made by Russert and Matthews, and the entire WashingtonPost ombudsman fiasco, but stating that its all part of a GOP-crafted story line that our news media isregurgitatingg without question is just plain absurd. I have my problems with the news media today, from constant polls to focusing on the old-fashioned "horserace", to an inordinatee amount of time on crime stories, to the blatant slanted stories of Fox News, to reporters not knowing the specifics and the intricacies of the issues they cover, to poor questioning of our political leaders, and many many more, but not one bit do I believe that any of the journalists mentioned above are mouth-pieces for the GOP (except for the pseudo-journalists Coulter, Hannity, and Rush). Oftentimes what people fail to or just deliberately ignore is that people aren't perfect, they do make mistakes, and being on live tv you can't just go back and erase them quite so easily. As for lack of corrections or slow corrections, the world doesn't always run on blog time.