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Monday Jan 22, 2007

Arianna In Our In Box

ariannahp.jpgIt's a rare thing for the HuffPo to pimp one of their columns to us. Rarer, still, for it to be one of Arianna's own. But this one takes the media to task. And what better place to do that than on mediabistro.com?

Her column, with its post-modern headline, The Mainstream Media's Take on Iraq: Right, Left... And Dead Wrong, suggests that the media are too busy trying to frame the Iraq war in terms of partisan politics. Her premise is that journalists believe anti-war sentiment is just the stuff of Prius-driving, sea-turtle lovers, while everyone who spent the morning in church yesterday wants to kill A-rabs with their teeth.

"Divorced from the reality of what's going on in Iraq. Wedded to a deluded perception of the war. Unwilling to acknowledge widespread and irrefutable evidence to the contrary. Sound like anyone you know? No, I'm not talking about President Bush -- though it's certainly true of him as well. I'm talking about the mainstream media, and their relentless depiction of the Iraq war as a left/right issue, even as the facts give lie to this hoary framing."

Huffington goes after big game: Howard Fineman, Candy Crowley and Judy Woodruff.

Seriously? You're surprised that the media are unraveling the very fabric of democracy out of sheer laziness and an unyielding adherence to manufactured story lines? Isn't that why you started a blog?

Either you're playing coy or you're the one divorced from reality.




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