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The Vice President's beach party with the press

DeliveryBoy

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The slow, painful march of the American media towards its well deserved inglorius end continues:

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That's CNN's Ed Henry's twitter feed, as he and other robustly independent "journalists" have a jolly good time cozying up to the people they're supposed to be acting as a balance against.

https://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/07/washington/index.html

I usually can't stand Greenwald, but it's nice to see him rip in to those that deserve it:

Rather, all of this just helpfully reveals what our nation's leading "journalists" really are: desperate worshipers of political power who are far more eager to be part of it and to serve it than to act as adversarial checks against it -- and who, in fact, are Royal Court Spokespeople regardless of which monarch is ruling. That's why they're invited into the heart of Versailles to frolic with the King's most trusted aides: it's their reward for loyal service as Court courtiers. Just marvel at the self-abasing joy in which Ed Henry wallows by virtue of getting to play water sports with Emanuel and the Bidens. He sounds like a gushing pre-adolescent who just met his favorite boy band idol and got his water gun signed.

Few things are as embarassing to me as an American citizen, than our pathetic excuse of a traditional news media.
 
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