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Paul Krugman did something that he made clear he regarded as quite brave: He defended the Democratic Party presidential nominee and likely next U.S. president from journalistic investigations. Complaining about media bias, Krugman claimed that journalists are driven by “the presumption that anything Hillary Clinton does must be corrupt, most spectacularly illustrated by the increasingly bizarre coverage of the Clinton Foundation.” While generously acknowledging that it was legitimate to take a look at the billions of dollars raised by the Clintons as she pursued increasing levels of political power — vast sums often received from the very parties most vested in her decisions as a public official — it is now “very clear,” he proclaimed, that there was absolutely nothing improper about any of what she or her husband did.
Krugman’s column, chiding the media for its unfairly negative coverage of his beloved candidate, was, predictably, a big hit among Democrats — not just because of their agreement with its content but because of what they regarded as the remarkable courage required to publicly defend someone as marginalized and besieged as the former First Lady, two-term New York Senator, Secretary of State, and current establishment-backed multi-millionaire presidential front-runner. Krugman — in a tweet-proclamation that has now been re-tweeted more than 10,000 times — heralded himself this way: “I was reluctant to write today’s column because I knew journos would hate it. But it felt like a moral duty.”
[...] The reality is that large, pro-Clinton liberal media platforms — such as Vox, and The Huffington Post, and prime-time MSNBC programs, and the columnists and editorialists of The New York Times and The Washington Post, and most major New-York-based weekly magazines — have been openly campaigning for Hillary Clinton. I don’t personally see anything wrong with that — I’m glad when journalists shed their faux-objectivity; I believe the danger of Trump’s candidacy warrants that; and I hope this candor continues past the November election — but the everyone-is-against-us self-pity from Clinton partisans is just a joke. They are the dominant voices in elite media discourse, and it’s a big reason why Clinton is highly likely to win.
That’s all the more reason why journalists should be subjecting Clinton’s financial relationships, associations, and secret communications to as much scrutiny as Donald Trump’s. That certainly does not mean that journalists should treat their various sins and transgressions as equivalent: nothing in the campaign compares to Trump’s deport-11-million-people or ban-all-Muslim policies, or his attacks on a judge for his Mexican ethnicity, etc. But this emerging narrative that Clinton should not only enjoy the support of a virtually united elite class but also a scrutiny-free march into the White House is itself quite dangerous. Clinton partisans in the media — including those who regard themselves as journalists — will continue to reflexively attack all reporting that reflects negatively on her, but that reporting should nonetheless continue with unrestrained aggression.
Source: The Intercept
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 07 2016, @01:54AM
Since I am anticipating an objection to my "how many stories have you submitted?" comment, I used a stopwatch and measured how long it took me to open Google News, open the Submit Story page, open the Google News technology section, think of a headline, and submit a submission with two links (no text, no quotes, but likely to get published if it is not crap). How long did it take me? A whopping 1 minute, 29.31 seconds, including an accidental reload of the submit page.
Take matters into your own hands.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:16AM
Then there's the ever popular hop on IRC, type #submit , bitch about MrPlow sucking ass, type ~submit , and be done.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:19AM
I don't think you can sub 2+ links at once that way. Maybe you can, but it would probably look like a mess.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:32AM
Still waiting for the days old political commentary submission in the queue to make it to the front page.
It doesn't say its about Trump, but it is about Trump.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @03:01AM
I personally will probably vote for Trump. But yeah holy fuck the media buzz is annoying. Whoever cleaned out the queue yesterday is a hero. No less than 10 different political things.
Political things usually just end up being coke vs pepsi.
Politics is nothing more than the collision of money and feelings.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @03:34AM
I'm not the parent, but I've submitted six stories today. My average is usually about 20 minutes to put together a decent submission that requires very little to no editing.
I appreciate how many stories you submit and you're clearly better at it than I am. You've put in a ton of work for this site and it wouldn't have survived this long without you.
That being said, I think there are a lot of people in the community that are not happy with the submissions (including my "obituary" and "Slow News Day" submissions). Perhaps we could use another Meta/Ask Soylent story about submissions. A lot of problems would be solved if we had more submissions, but I don't know how we can get more people to submit (hopefully we can come up with something).
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday September 07 2016, @03:49AM
Well, obituaries sometimes cluster randomly as a bunch of people that users in the community like or thinks interesting die. Not everybody will think that Person X is noteworthy or belongs on the front page, and there's usually not much to say other than tributes and highlighting the individual's accomplishments.
If you mean the smallpox eradication obituary from a couple weeks ago, users seemed to like it.
Slow News Day depends. Someone could complain that the Japanese balloon story is 72-year-old news, but that might be better than a 3-4 hour gap on the weekend and lead to an interesting discussion.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 08 2016, @12:19AM
That sounds about right to me. It's how long it takes me once I'm in the swing of things.
Many think that they need to spend hours composing story submissions, and then don't because nobody has that kind of free time. Others think that submissions assembled with celerity are slapdash, but that seems shortsighted because efficiently accomplished tasks say 'practiced' to me.
Washington DC delenda est.