Hullabaloo

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

 
Push It A Little

by digby


The progressive phone network, Working Assets, has put together a petition that's worth signing. There is a moment here, where the media has egg on its face after wrongly calling the Democratic race over (although all the polls were dicey) and they are being criticized so heavily for their repulsive coverage in New Hampshire, that we might make a tiny impact.

It's unlikely that they will change their tune (it's ingrained village behavior) but it couldn't hurt to put a little pressure on them right now, before they set the next nonsensical narrative, to try a little dry old-fashioned reporting for a while and give the voters a breather from their useless prognostication.

"Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House?"

That was the headline of a Maureen Dowd column in today's New York Times.

Hillary Clinton's win in New Hampshire was shocking. The performance of the national press corps in the days preceding the vote, unfortunately, was not.

Journalists have been replaced by a punditocracy that makes its living (and gets its kicks) by perverting our democratic process. The misogyny that was unleashed by the media's feeding frenzy on the video of an exhausted Clinton tearing up at a small New Hampshire roundtable of voters was just the tip of the iceberg.

To be clear, we are not endorsing any candidate. This is not about who we choose for president, but rather how we choose our leader. Voting based on sexist logic propagated by media monopolies is no way to select a candidate.

Sign our petition and tell the major media outlets: Stop pimping prejudice.

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digby 1/09/2008 01:53:00 PM |