Nighttime Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Why Politicians Are so Boring (and the MSM Is so Bad)

Matthew Yglesias: Why Politicians Are so Boring (and the MSM Is so Bad): “Gaffe-coverage… signif[ies] nothing and leav[es] nothing behind…

…distracts from more consequential, but complicated, debates…. In an internet world of limited time but unlimited newshole the ‘gaffe’ story offers easy content…. Last… the old-time division between ‘news’ and ‘opinion’ continues to saddle much mainstream political coverage with a perverse bias toward tactics and process… that a politician gaffed is a fact… while the fact that a politician’s agenda might be bad for the world is opinion…

February 15, 2015

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