Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch. In other words, the fate of particular politicians is not the issue. Issue after issue is discussed in the media with little or no regard for that. Gun control is not about the National Rifle Association or the Million Moms March. It is about whether more Americans will die if we follow one policy rather than another.
Education goes to the heart of our country's future.
Instead, the pundits talk about how the polls show whether the public trusts the Democrats or the Republicans on this issue. To the media, education itself seems to be important only as a political football. Meanwhile, massive special-interest propaganda by the National Educational Association and others goes largely unexamined by the media. Perhaps it is just as well that the media have not gotten into substance very much. Where they have, it has usually been on the most superficial level and with incredible bias.