Torie
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« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2008, 01:42:54 PM » |
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« Edited: October 11, 2008, 01:45:18 PM by Torie »
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The topic was talk radio. As to the MSM, it varies a lot in quality, although the trend is down, down, down there too. WAPO is pretty good, the LA Times is just a rag, and the NY Times is all left agitprop all the time. The WSJ's quality has gone down too, on its editorial page. It's thinkums on the meltdown have been quite superficial. They don't understand any more than we do.
Praeger does not have a very catholic (small c) mind. He's in a rut. He just can't quite break out of his hard wired paradigms, and he has become much more partisan, ala Michael Barone, which reduces the quality of his product. Having a certain emotional detachment really helps when it comes to being susceptible to those little factlets that help to make for a more penetrating analysis.
The fairness doctrine sucks by the way, as does doing away with elections for unionization. But nobody is suggesting that election Obama, even in centrist garb, is a risk free proposition I would suspect, except his true blue fans.
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