We commented---very, very briefly---on this piece on the out-sourcing of reporting by Maureen Dowd (A Penny for My Thoughts).
Don't know how we missed Molly Ivors' incisive and scathing---in the manner of a flaying---commentary at Whiskey Fire. In the course of reflecting on MoDo's role in dumbing down public discourse, she says:
Imagine, for a moment, that you are Maureen Dowd. You sit down twice a week and ruminate about feng shui or getting your chakras read or how hot you think Barack is and how that meanie old Hillary won't go away, or how Bill got oral sex this one time and wasn't it great because you got a Pulitzer for that!
...All you had to do to stay on the gravy train was sneer at girly democrats and reminisce about your dad and do your level best to keep the status quo shallow, focused on image rather than policy....[Y]ou contributed to the kneecapping of an American president, the belittling of his would-be heir, and the elevation of the functionally retarded scion of a family with decades-long connections to genuine evil, a man who had done more to destroy America domestically, internationally, and globally than anyone could have imagined, but hey! it was all in good fun.....
[T]ell me how you can possibly excuse yourself from culpability for a system in which actual reporting is outsourced to barely-English speakers. If you hadn't successfully ridden the wave of trivialization that demeaned real reporting, maybe people wouldn't think press releases and webcams were an acceptable substitute for feet on the ground. This didn't come out of nowhere, Maureen. Look in the mirror.
...All you had to do to stay on the gravy train was sneer at girly democrats and reminisce about your dad and do your level best to keep the status quo shallow, focused on image rather than policy....[Y]ou contributed to the kneecapping of an American president, the belittling of his would-be heir, and the elevation of the functionally retarded scion of a family with decades-long connections to genuine evil, a man who had done more to destroy America domestically, internationally, and globally than anyone could have imagined, but hey! it was all in good fun.....
[T]ell me how you can possibly excuse yourself from culpability for a system in which actual reporting is outsourced to barely-English speakers. If you hadn't successfully ridden the wave of trivialization that demeaned real reporting, maybe people wouldn't think press releases and webcams were an acceptable substitute for feet on the ground. This didn't come out of nowhere, Maureen. Look in the mirror.
Full of WIN, as the kids say.
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