Total Waste Of Time
Daniel Gross wrote a “Newsweek Web Exclusive” titled, What’s the Best Fix?. He spends two web pages not giving you a clue.
The entire article is made up of people complaining about the various options without identifying anything as being a solution, only listing the opinions of people as to why each option will fail. Frankly there isn’t any clear explanation of what the problem is.
One of the more annoying things is that in the entire article only one person, Greg Mankiw, is even presented with any credentials. Reading it you would think that the opinion of Amity Shlaes has the weight of Paul Krugman.
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But that is what he was taught to do in journalism school. His job, he was taught, is to interview people and report accurately what they said. His job is not to analyze what he is told, that would be analysis, not reporting, and thus Not His Job.
In short, his job is to be a transcriptionist, not a seeker of truth. And he — and the journalism profession in general — is just fine with that. After all, if he were a seeker of truth, then, like, some advertiser might get upset. Can’t have that, can you?
– Badtux the Cynical Penguin
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It almost makes one nostalgic for the “good old days” of Hearst and Pulitzer when newspapers wrote copy and then made it happen.
Who can forget Hearst’s immortal telegram “You supply the pictures. I’ll supply the war.” sent to the artist dispatched to Havana just before the Spanish-American War was started.