Media Matters

[Commentary] Carrigan wishes the media was capable of covering election stories with some element of intelligent and reasonable analysis and discourse. We are, as a nation, worse-off because it can't seem to. Watching cable news channels, she's appalled by the extraordinary misinterpretations, and deliberate falsehoods, that are allowed to fill the airwaves night after night after night. Whether it's "bittergate," (last week she watched as Chris Matthews described Barack Obama as "making fun" of blue collar workers) or Jeremiah Wright (Chris Matthews, (again) last night, describing Wright as Obama's "surrogate," and going on to describe Obama and Wright as the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of the same person, "birds of a feather," he continued). C'mon now? Seriously?! There are very few journalists on cable news anymore. Instead there are a lot of pundits putting forward disingenuous arguments -- i.e. arguments they know to be false, in an effort to support their candidate. It is like what Jon Stewart said, oh so long ago now, on Crossfire, it's all about political hackery, with partisan pundits believing that the end justifies the means ... and any means will do. Jon Stewart said it back then, and it is still true today, "It's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lucy-carrigan/media-matters_b_99130.html