"Long ago I said that if liberals said the Earth was round, while conservatives said it was flat, the news headlines would read “Shape of the planet: both sides have a point.” But I encountered a new wrinkle today. I was tentatively scheduled to be on a broadcast dealing with — well, I won’t embarrass them. But first they had to find someone to take the opposite view. And it turned out that they couldn’t — which led to canceling the whole segment."
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Shape of planet blogging - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (via robot-heart-politics) (via apsies)
I very much believe that this is the reason the MSM did not initially cover the election protests in Iran. Until the Republicans started complaining about Obama’s reaction to the protests, our so-called “news” didn’t have a fight to cover - so they ignored it completely.
Honestly, at this point we shouldn’t even call it news. “News” has become “Politics” (Case in point. the MSNBC slogan: “The Place For Politics”), and the only thing the MSM covers is the fights about and reactions to an event. The event itself - unless it’s a lurid tragedy or a destructive wind - isn’t enough.
