Politico.com Hillary Clinton's RFK assassination comment was news by any standard, says
John F. Harris, "but it was only big news when wrested from context and set aflame by a news media more concerned with being interesting and provocative than with being relevant or serious. ...In this era, with their business model challenged by the Web and other forces, and in the same scramble for audience as everyone else, these fabled elite media organs are if anything more buffeted by sensationalism and whimsy than their new media counterparts." ||
Glenn Greenwald: Harris now admits what he once denied about the
John Edwards "hair story."
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Journalism old-timers find 2008 campaign coverage disturbing (HC)
First there was Hunter Thompson and gonzo-journalism and now we...
