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One Of The Problems With The Media

By Big Tent Democrat

Michael Tomasky is one of the better political reporters you will find. Smart, generally fair and well informed. Here, he writes a decent column on Obama's task to unify the Democratic Party and the DNC RBC meeting this Saturday. I have my quibbles with his opinions expressed in the column but I have a real problem with his ignorance of certain facts. Tomasky also wrote this:

A woman in the audience yelled, apropos of what I'm not sure: "What about Iowa? New Hampshire? South Carolina?"

It bothers me that Tomasky did not know why the woman yelled that. Of course I do not expect respected members of the Media to read my rants about the fact that DNC Rule 11, concerning the primary timing schedule, was violated by Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. But he was at the hearing and must have heard Carl Levin's presentation on the subject. [More...] Moreover, Mike Tomasky is a veteran of the Village Voice and must be familiar with the work of fellow Voicer Wayne Barrett on the subject. Did Tomasky really NOT know why the woman yelled "What about Iowa? New Hampshire? South Carolina?" Really? If so, the question has to be how could he say he did his job as a reporter about this situation?

That bothers me about the Media. Sometimes, they do not do their job. Speaking for me only.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).