The Media Represents Complex Issues in a Careful and Measured Manner
I thought a great deal yesterday about how the media would respond to Obama’s speech. They’d clearly been chomping on the race bit for some time; would this event put more food in the trough or would they rise above their most base instincts and cover this story with the nuanced tone it deserves?
(I also thought about mixed metaphors and how I deploy them in an obscenely casual manner.)
Here’s what the LA Times’ politics blog, Top of the Ticket added to the national discussion:
Barack Obama thought O.J. did it
Less noticed was the elaboration he provided in an interview aired Monday night on ABC’s “Nightline” on the question that once so divided many whites and blacks: did Simpson butcher his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her wrong-place, wrong-time friend, Ron Goldman?
They ran it with the biggest goddamn picture I’ve seen of OJ in years.
I linked to that through GoogleNews, which is my homepage. What else did we aggregate this morning? ABC news’ Brian Ross:
Hillary Was in White House on ‘Stained Blue Dress’ Day
Schedules Reviewed by ABC Show Hillary May Have Been in the White House When the Fateful Act Was Committed
Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day her husband had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky, and may have actually been there when it happened, according to records of her schedule released today by the National Archives.
Not only does the subhead nearly contradict the headline, but the lede is vague enough for a reading that HRC was in the room when her husband had sex with Lewinsky.
Oh my hell. I need to go find Jurgen Habermas. He and I are going to have a drink and a cry.
Screenshot of the first thing I saw this morning
