Big Tim

In article called "The Unbearable Inanity of Tim Russert," Matthew Yglesias picks apart the journalistic idea that the most important question to any politician is whether he1 has ever changed his mind. That is, if a candidate ever makes a statement that differs in any way from something he said a decade ago, he is a hypocrite or a liar. Or both.

It's a good observation. But it's not going to make me cancel my season pass of Meet The Press.


1Or she. I really hate our language, sometimes, for doing this to me. Yeah, I could write around it. But I'm lazy, which incidentally is another trait of journalists.

Comments

Adam Hirsch said…
I'd disagree with you, but as a newly-minted journalist, I'm required to be lazy as well.
January 18, 2008
SKBK said…
Wow, that IS lazy.
January 19, 2008
Josh said…
Much like the SATs measure one's ability to take a high-pressure three-hour test (and little else), an appearance on Meet the Press measure's one's ability to handle stupid questions while staying 'on message.' It's a job required of college students and presidents, respectively.
January 22, 2008
Josh said…
What's the deal with my apostrophe on "measure's"?
January 22, 2008
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