The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press.
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.