Just when I think the media can't get anymore lazy or hypocritical . . .

These are the people who spend most of their time obsessing over nothing - over and over and over again hour after hour after hour after hour. Yet, suddenly, they are now FURIOUS that the President has not stopped everything he is doing to run down to the Gulf to personally plug a leak that the world's foremost experts haven't yet figured out how to stop.

But in the midst of their whining and fingerpointing, they keep slipping up and showing their true colors. For example, how much of their coverage of the President's press conference had to do with what the President actually said and what he is actually doing v. how he APPEARED to THEM? And, of course, for the most part, they all pronounced themselves dissatisfied because to THEM, the President didn't APPEAR to be angry enough.

And I loved seeing some of the commentators this morning complaining that they "didn't recognize" any of the people sitting around the table in the meetings down in the Gulf and that, if the President couldn't be there, at least he should have sent Biden.

Excuse me? Since when does or should the President or Vice President of the United States need to be sitting at a table at the site of a disaster directing operations?

The press pretends they're about accountability and results but what they're really about is finding the cheapest, easiest and flashiest ways to do their own jobs. It's so much easier to sit in a studio an talk ad nauseum about what the politicians aren't dong right than to actually learn, digest, synthesize and then report complicated facts. It's so much easier to keep zeroing in on the highest profile person in the picture rather than doing some real digging to find out what's actually happening on the ground.

They're really getting on my nerves.

Although I do have to give some props to David Gregory who this morning on Morning Joe made an effort at balance and pushed back a little bit on the "Obama's not jumping up and down and beating his chest so he's not effective" bandwagon.

That way people will elect Rethuglicans and the oil industry can flourish with even fewer regulations.

name and be picking at HIS words.

The media is shitty and lazy.

leads to our dumbing down. It's like we think life is a movie.

These pundits are all shameful - none of them are serious and they do not inform anyone.

They just stir shit.

They fawned over Bush on the rubble with the bullhorn bellowing to get the "people who knocked down these buildings." The fact that we never did get those people is irrelevant to them.

They swooned over the flightsuit photo op. But hardly care that it was all a big lie.

And now they're beating up Obama because he's not giving them the photo op they want. And without photo ops to focus on, they might actually have to do some reporting, God forbid.

there is enough people who flip around and watch at least some news to make a real difference in perceptions and in how people think.
And they talk to co workers and family about it;
It can potentially be highly damaging

Katrina for days...
Don't remember seeing much criticism of bush's lack of "hands on" presence in NewOrleans..In fact did not see any criticism of shit-for-brains' at the birthday celebration with McBoob during the disaster..

the rightwing always organizes and emails these people and keeps them wrapped around their crap by making noise.
Isn't it time we organize and band together and fight back.
We never do.
It is time to do a massive email campaign. Organized with other blogs. Really dump the complaints on them from the idiot Morning Joe to the traitor Ed Schultz.
CNN and the insufferable grandstanding Anderson Cooper.

and analyze them till we are blue in the face. We, in fact, become part of the echo machine.
We are too analytical for our own good and for the good that we say we want desperately.