On the other side, a bunch of howling, bellowing. You wrote it. Tell it to Oliver Stone who found more humanity in Richard Nixon than in today's natural born reporter-assassin. That said, I want to recommend several books that have a corner on the truth about the media and reporting. I have a hunch that every political consultant in America will have read this book, so voters better read it as well.
Reporters are free to be dummies.
These alleged journalists, according to Fallows, have about as much concern with the problems of this nation as Marie Antoinette had for France. While Fallows is good at pointing out the problems, he's terrible at solutions. Don't need no academics telling me what is or isn't a story. Just need a few more journalism giants and fewer wealthy media pygmies. The Committee to Re-Elect President Nixon.