Check out yesterday’s discussion group topic at The Carpetbagger Report, one of the best liberal blogs out there:
“Is the national media making a comeback? Are the days of passivity and stenography officially over? Or, conversely, is even the coverage we’re now getting too timid?”
“Has the news media turned a corner? Will it last? What prompted the change?”
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Much food for thought, and I’m interested to know what you all think.
Personally, I think Hurricane Katrina was the turning point. It’s one thing to mismanage a foreign war or to engage in disastrous fiscal irresponsibility, quite another to botch recovery efforts in a major American city. Do you remember those first few days after Katrina hit? There were stirrings of change in how the media covers the Bush Administration well before those horrible images came out of New Orleans — think back to the coverage of Abu Ghraib — but Katrina was the event that finally woke the news media up from their long slumber.
For more, see this post over at The Reaction.