Thursday, September 11, 2008

Bullshit Laundering

Our campaign press. Serwer:

It seems to me at this point that the press is simply acting as a very expensive middleman. We might as well get rid of the campaign press all together and allow the PR wings of either campaign tell us what's true and what isn't. Except the campaigns themselves need the press, because they need to be able to repeat lies and give them the veneer of truth by filtering them through a third party ostensibly committed to telling you what matters. If the campaign press didn't exist, the campaigns would have to invent them. And if they had, it's hard to imagine they would be much different than they are today.