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Maybe the best way journalists can serve readers in these cases is to do the unthinkable: admit that it's perfectly likely AND acceptable (and common to a good portion of the population) that Obama's mother could be an atheist or that his parents would be influenced by communist or Marxist ideas. As an outside-viewer (I'm Brazilian), I sometimes feel the American media has made itself hostage to a conservative minority's small-mindedness when it comes to covering politics, where most of the coverage is barely relevant.
#1 Posted by Georgia, CJR on Mon 7 May 2012 at 11:33 AM
Really? The correct way to cover Joe? Is this what it has come to in the leftstream media now? Oh sorry, I forgot you JournOlists even get together and decide what to reframe real problems like say Illegal Aliens or Immigrants to say undocumented workers or even fraudulent Democrat voters.
Geez and you lefties wonder why your monopoly is going bankrupt. Welcome to the new media, now wake up to reality.
#2 Posted by David Kramer, CJR on Wed 9 May 2012 at 05:02 AM