Once again we see that the American media has acted as a smog, obscuring rather than illuminating. Yes, yes, Bill Clinton's scandalous behavior is not an issue. That is why Gore has picked one of the Democratic Party's few critics of Clinton's private and public life as his running mate. Until just the other day the media and the Democrats were telling Americans that the Clinton scandals were not an issue. Now almost all of these amnesiacs are telling us that Gore's vice presidential choice deals handsomely with the issue.
Journalism is supposed to be make a stab at being lucid and precise.
In America it is often just the opposite. The coverage of George W. Bush is another example of the press being inscrutable and imprecise. The pundits do not report, they posture. During Bush's pursuit of the Republican nomination he was variously reported as being a moderate, then too conservative and finally, at the Republican National Convention, hell-bent to suppress the conservatives in his party. The convention itself was variously reported as being under the control of the right wing, then boring and without conviction.