Reply #33: Cockburn frames this garbage as media criticism

[Enrique]

this is how he begins:

Not for the first time in recent political history, an American standing in the checkout line at a supermarket is better informed on a hot issue of the day than the nation's elite who send their maids to buy food and get their news from the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Since when is knowing about a rumored affair "informed?"

I wonder what was on the front pages of the NYT and the WP at the same time as this tabloid trash, and whether people would be better informed by glancing at those publications instead.