Comments on: The media begin to notice, at least for a moment http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2009/10/24/the-media-begin-to-notice-at-least-for-a-moment/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:49:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: F http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2009/10/24/the-media-begin-to-notice-at-least-for-a-moment/#comment-334949 F Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:16:13 +0000 http://www.dinocrat.com/?p=12655#comment-334949 I'm not convinced about your final paragraph: are you saying senior editors are uncomfortable that the White House is not doing a better job of slapping down Fox? That they are so complicit they want Obama and Emanuel to succeed in intimidating any press outlets that question them? That would be a more serious charge than that they are just going along. I hope you're wrong. If I were a senior editor I'd be more uncomfortable about the ineptitude of my own news organization than I would be about the White House. I mean, any White House will get some things right and other things wrong. But a fawning fourth estate will not play the role that they claim to play: watchdog. And that's what I see happening for the past couple of years or more. Maybe I read your comment incorrectly. F I’m not convinced about your final paragraph: are you saying senior editors are uncomfortable that the White House is not doing a better job of slapping down Fox? That they are so complicit they want Obama and Emanuel to succeed in intimidating any press outlets that question them? That would be a more serious charge than that they are just going along. I hope you’re wrong.

If I were a senior editor I’d be more uncomfortable about the ineptitude of my own news organization than I would be about the White House. I mean, any White House will get some things right and other things wrong. But a fawning fourth estate will not play the role that they claim to play: watchdog. And that’s what I see happening for the past couple of years or more.

Maybe I read your comment incorrectly. F

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