Media 'Bigfeet' out of touch and doing a poor job

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By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

Although we're not yet through the national conventions, 2004 is emerging as a snakebitten election for America's media "Bigfeet" -- our news organizations and TV's non-stop talking heads.

They've been wrong so much of the time already.

Gov. Howard Dean graced the cover of both "Time" and "Newsweek" -- for the second time in six months -- as I retrieved luggage at the Des Moines terminal last January.

The nominee anointed by the news magazines was to finish a distant third a few days later in the Iowa presidential caucuses: The one-two finishers, John Kerry and John Edwards, had previously been pronounced dead or dead in the water.

Last Friday, 45,000 people jammed Tom McCall Riverfront Park in Portland, greeting Kerry with the largest election crowd in Oregon history.

The Washington, D.C., commentocracy ignored the turnout, preferring to prattle about how President Bush had put his Democratic rival on the "defensive" about the Iraq war. As usual, the war was a bloody mess for much of the week.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/187147_joel20.html

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Decommission NPR and sell it off to the private sector.

[necso]

2. Good article,

but he left out a few things: incompetence, ignorance (they often misstate common knowledge), cowardice, servility, stupidity, indifference, weakness of moral character, laziness and an obsession with appearances.

The media is a collection of Glitterati who read lines and effect poses. They are not journalists or reporters, and they are failing miserably in their duty to provide people with what they need to know.

Throw the bums out along with the rest of the trash.

[dumpster_baby]

3. I live for the day when these "journalists" are punished for their treason

I would like nothing better than seeing most of them strung up in Washington Mall, after being tried and convicted for treason in a recognized court of law, of course.

Probably never happen, though....

Great story, though.
Is it just my imagination, or has there been a slight sea change in the political zeitgeist, one that is responsible for this sort of article? THe Seattle Post Intelligencer, a decidedly mainstream media pig, is not really known for running articles this radical.