Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Bending, not sifting
Heh:
New, Transparent WhiteHouse.gov Forgoes Press Briefing Transcripts? The obvious explanation: Bush wanted transcripts online because he expected the press to filter what he said. Obama doesn’t want transcripts online . . . because he expects the press to filter what he says.
I think the press is more a prism than a filter. It always bends the light; the variable is the direction.
6 Comments:
By 
, at
Tue Jan 27, 01:04:00 PM:
Very well expressed. I couldn't agree more. Hopefully, at some future point, Obama learns the value of direct communication and changes his mind.
By 
Georg Felis, at
Tue Jan 27, 01:34:00 PM:
I'd go with Funhouse Mirror instead of prism. You can recognize the picture, but it is all bent out of shape.
By , at
Tue Jan 27, 02:51:00 PM:
Or making sausage. That was once one of the descriptions of politics, but anymore, it also seems to be the way that the news is "collected" and "distributed". All sorts of crap goes in, and what comes out is....well.
Yeah sausauge. Hmmmmmm. Sausage.
-David
By , at
Tue Jan 27, 07:12:00 PM:
I suppose some people would say that it is good that the “loyal” opposition (repugs) act out some sort of phony pseudo-patriotic crypto-fascist-religious parody in vain hopes of seeming relevant. I’m sure I offend at this very moment bringing these precious facts to way too many conservative attention deficit disordered minds, such as they are, as my ears have been on fire now for weeks, and surely they sit in some secret lair, mumbling something about perverts while making furtive hand gestures and waving a emaciated chicken bone or part, and for all I know, probably incoherently rubbing entrails on themselves whilst in Reaganistic thrall, mouthing ancient tribal curses of some long forgotten people that got here way before we did, before them damn Indians got automatic front-zees, and ruined it for everybody. And I won’t even go into the dearth of any very real chance of getting a decent egg cream or malted or that fantastic garlic sauce you get whence dining on Arab food or whatever. I mean you just don’t get that high quality garlic sauce to slather on your chicken parts or veggie substitute out here behind the orange curtain – it isn’t fair! But unfortunately, that’s the rusted and neglected plow we must use as an entrenching tool, horseless, across the blistered arid topography of our past electorate’s disengaged separation from any and all possible universes, a country in ruins, an eight year slide into impotent saber-rattling by conformist sheep, a virtual dust bowl days (daze?) of what essentially is the firmament of that which is truly the “us” of us. You get me? Fine, be that way!
By JPMcT, at
Tue Jan 27, 09:41:00 PM:
Carl,
You really should remember to take your medication before using the computer....
Back to the point...anybody had a look at Bernie Goldberg's new book? We've moved beyond media bias to media advocacy.
By joe buz, at
Wed Jan 28, 09:08:00 AM:
What Carl is saying in his own special way is the the new Admin's wiz kids can not figure out how to post the vids to the site without their apple products....
