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.

Yes, indeed, I’ve decided to do some blog restructuring, as part of a larger attempt to make Patrickcentral.com less schizophrenic, and get myself to write more. 

Partially as a result of the complete insanity of the 2008 campaigns, I’ve been feeling like dusting off exjournalist.com (purchased in a moment of opportunity and rage at the state of the American press corps) and really getting into the mix. 

I have spent a good long while this past year trying to consolidate my online presence, though, and the idea of sprouting a brand new blog just for politics really did not sound appealing. I had a number of discussions about it, asked a number of people, and spent longer than I’m comfortable admitting debating it with myself, and have decided to simply do one blog with different categories, and go out of my way to make sure that if you’re not into new media articles, you can avoid those. Or, if you like those but can’t stand my constant berating of the press, you can have your tastes accomodated. 

What was most important to me was making the damn thing easy to write in, or else there’s just no content at all – which has been the case since roughly 2004.

After going 12 rounds with Wordpress MU, and emerging battered against its rope-a-dope strategy, I was nonetheless victorious.

I have no idea why, but I really wanted to be able to announce this new thing in triumph on a clean day, like October 1st.

So here it is, October 1st, and that’s what I’m doing. This is the first entry published in the Politics category, mapped to Exjournalist.com. New media articles will be mapped to CorrugatedMedia.com, and we’ll see what else we get.