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Assessing the MSM Coverage of the Democratic Convention

By Jeralyn, Section Democratic National Convention 2008
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 11:28:01 AM EST
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Eric Boehlert of Media Matters rips the Mainstream Media for its coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

How 15,000 credentialed journalists could descend on Denver and produce such unvaryingly weak and shoddy coverage of a staged news event -- and do it with coverage that celebrated sameness and shallowness -- was a sad spectacle that newsrooms nationwide ought to ponder.

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    An excellent piece by Boehlert (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by bjorn on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 11:43:15 AM EST
    if on the press/media would read it and take it seriously.  

    The media (5.00 / 2) (#3)
    by JThomas on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 11:48:00 AM EST
    was never more exposed as having herd-like tendencies than last week. Obviously, they decided before the convention that they had one actual human interest story they wanted to push..the dram