MoveOn.org WTF?
I just got an email from MoveOn with the subject "NPR v. Fox." Intrigued, i opened it up to find a petition demanding that the white house correspondents association give Hellen Thomas' front row seat in the white house briefing room to NPR instead of Fox.You have got to be shitting me. This cannot possibly be of the slightest importance to anyone in the entire world other than people who get off about the prestige of the white house press corps. And all of those people are in the white house press corp.
When was the last time a journalist actually accomplished something in the white house briefing room? When did someone actually get some information? I'd rather Fox get the front row seat so a journalist with actual potential at NPR won't get sucked into the establishment and start deluding themselves about the triumphant return of print media thanks to the miracle of the iPad, and then jump right on that bandwagon with Chuck Todd and the rest of the goatee-sporting Luddites who are fervently honing their narratives on how blogs can't possibly be news because if you don't have direct access to administration officials, how could you possibly know anything about things?
plus, once you're in the white house press corps, why would you ever read the news? you get all your news read to you by that guy the taxpayers pay $250,000 a year to come up with clever ways each day to avoid answering anyone's questions about their government.
