I think I love you, Campbell Brown
She had an excellent rant about the utter sexism of hiding Palin from the press a while back, but this line from a Gray Lady interview makes me positively swoon: “As journalists, and certainly for me over the last few years, we’ve gotten overly obsessed with parity, especially when we’re covering politics,” Ms. Brown […]
She had an excellent rant about the utter sexism of hiding Palin from the press a while back, but this line from a Gray Lady interview makes me positively swoon:
“As journalists, and certainly for me over the last few years, we’ve gotten overly obsessed with parity, especially when we’re covering politics,” Ms. Brown said. “We kept making sure each candidate got equal time — to the point that it got ridiculous in a way.”
“So when you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it’s a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it’s a cloudy day,” she said. “I should be able to tell my viewers, ‘Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right.’ And not have to say, ‘Well, you decide.’ Then it would be like I’m an idiot. And I’d be treating the audience like idiots.”
Yes. It would be exactly like that. And yet that is the standard operating procedure in cable news right now.
I would like to take this moment to plug a comic I did in TWO-THOUSAND-SIX: Fourth Estate Sale.
Hat tip to Sully.