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Sunday, September 8, 2002
Clear as mist 
| | I'm watching the evening news by satellite on DishTV, and the compression artifacts are so freaking ugly. Almost unwatchable. Oklahoma is beating Alabama on a field of little green squares. I switched over to the snowy local TV signal just to get an analog fix. |
Third ear
So many naked emperors, so little patience
| | Then the story seems to drift into a discussion of how the public doesn't like the press to ask "tough questions." But I think that misses the point. The public doesn't like the press asking dumb-but-slanted questions and pretending that they're tough questions. Adversarialism for the sake of adversarialism, Reuters-style moral equivalence or bias, and petty kvetching give people the sense that the press sees itself as apart from, and somehow better than, the society that it is in fact a part of, and that readers and viewers are a part of. And people don't like that. Go figure. |
| | My advice to those who read this article and want to know how to improve the press's image: read a lot of weblogs. Because webloggers don't hate the press as such. Heck, if we did, we'd spend our time watching The Simpsons on DVD (I've got seasons 1 & 2!). |
Encouraging words
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