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Apropos for this time of year. It's wildly slanted media coverage that makes politics easily digested for public consumption. Strip the politicians of their thin ideological facade, and we're left with the ugly truth that there is no real war of ideology taking place, but a naked fight for power. The media exist in order to place the actors in their proper costumes, provide the script, background, and supporting cast, and make the whole process look sanitary. Which leaves the real ideological battle taking place in the media itself. People like Beck and Stewart, Limbaugh and Krugman, really are motivated by ideology, but the politicians themselves are simply the whores willing to sell their souls for the spotlight, and illusory power of the moment.

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It is part of the ethics of american journalists that they tell the truth. They do tell the truth. That isn't a problem. They are still biased, but they don't in general lie about things. "He said, she said" journalism is perfectly true.

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