MSNBC rival CNN has Bernie Goldberg on Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources" pulling his Chatty Cathy string on the media's "slobbering love affair" with Barack Obama. Why Howard waited this long to book Bernie is beyond me. CNNBernie's now in Stepford Media mode after his book tour blasting the mainstream media for camping out in Obama's colon during the presidential campaign, and is beating a dead horse.
Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews' "man crush" on Obama. Yeah, well, what else is new?
I read Bernie's 173 page book last night. It took me an hour and a half (I'm a fast reader).
Where was Bernie's editor at conservative publishing house Regnery? I found Whoopi Goldberg spelled "Whoopie." Former Wash Post omsbudsman Deborah Howell was "Debroah." Lose as in lose an election was spelled "loose." Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
I'd like to know how long it took for the former CBS News correspondent to write it. Reads like he slapped it together. Bernie makes some salient points. Most of which I knew because I follow this stuff and have written about it here. The book's not worth $25.95 retail. The best chapter is on why the media are biased. "The problem is that life inside the liberal media bubble is too comfortable. It dulls the sense. It turns even well-educated journalists into narrow-minded provincial rubes... Inside the bubble just about everybody believed that Obama deserved to win. After a while, journalists inside the bubble don't even think they're taking sides or slanting the news. They think they're simply doing what's right. That is the seduction of the bubble. It lulls journalists into thinking that they really are fair and honest brokers of information."
American media are like a Rube Goldberg machine: performing a simple task with a complicated contraption. In TV news the contraption is cable news channels with questionable conduits.
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