{"id":197649,"date":"2008-01-19T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/19\/i-agree-the-major-political-reporters-covering-the-primaries-are-useless\/"},"modified":"2008-01-19T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T00:36:00","slug":"i-agree-the-major-political-reporters-covering-the-primaries-are-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/19\/i-agree-the-major-political-reporters-covering-the-primaries-are-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"I Agree, the Major Political Reporters Covering the Primaries are Useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would that this would happen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/110\/story\/628407.html\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/110\/story\/628407.html\">Some reporters should drop out of the campaign<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">By Martin Schram &#8211;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, January 13, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The verdicts of Iowa and New Hampshire prompted a handful of the 2008 political players to depart from the presidential campaign trail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">But far too many remain for our own good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Along with the handful of presidential candidates who dropped out so far, voters might be better served if a hundred or so of my political-reporter and pundit colleagues dropped out as well \u2013 and were replaced by journalists whose beats are about national security, economics, environment and health care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">For our coverage has not been serving the public interest by providing the sort of information voters really need to know \u2013 especially in the last weeks when many voters make their decisions.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would add something more significant.  That among top tier political reporters, not only is there a lack of understanding about the political issues of the day, there is actually an <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">active disdain<\/span> for knowing these issues.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about the game, not what it means to win or lose.<\/p>\n<p>The coverage is cynical and juvenile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would that this would happen. Some reporters should drop out of the campaign By Martin Schram &#8211;Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, January 13, 2008 The verdicts of Iowa and New Hampshire prompted a handful of the 2008 political players to depart from the presidential campaign trail. But far too many remain for our own good. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1002,1129,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-good-writing","category-journalism","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}