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Totten: Washington's Idiotic Echo Chamber
heh - he takes a pretty harsh and deserved critique of Ben Rhodes' Willing Partisan RubesDavid Samuels' long-form essay last weekend in the New York Times Magazine about President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser and spokesmen Ben Rhodes has sent the media into a tizzy. Rhodes had to sell the Iranian nuclear deal to a skeptical American public. He freely admits that he did so by manipulating a select group of reporters that he and staff think are idiots and molded them into his own personal echo chamber. It wasn't difficult. "All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus," he told Samuels. "Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing." What a gob-smacking couple of sentences. Posted by: Frank G 2016-05-18 |
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