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Max Bergmann at the Huff Post posted a great article today about why John McCain's presidential bid should have been over this week. This tidbit is from the second paragraph:
"During this past week: McCain called the most important entitlement program in the U.S. a disgrace, his top economic adviser called the American people whiners, McCain released an economic plan that no one thought was serious, he flip flopped on Iraq, joked about the deaths of Iranian citizens, and denied making comments that he clearly made -- TWICE. All this and it is not even Friday! Yet watching and reading the mainstream press you would think McCain was having a pretty decent political week, I mean at least Jesse Jackson didn't say anything about him. "
Bergmann makes an excellent point about the mainstream media missing the boat with most of these stories. So why aren't they newsworthy?
As noted here, networks have been competing fiercely for smaller and smaller shares of the news market. Ratings drive story selection, and the shock value from most of these stories was negligible. After eight years of George W. Bush, I think Americans just expect these kinds of blunders from Republican politicians.
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