From Brad DeLong —
I have not yet figured out why so much of our elite press is so… what should I call it? Feckless. Corrupt (in the sense of well-rotted). Decadent. Why does William Saletan [Slate] find it funny that Kerry tries hard to give nuanced, reasonably-complete answers to questions about issues with nuances? Why do Weston Kosova and Michael Isikoff [Newsweek] cover the government–rather than, say, cover something like advances in bartending–if they find debates over policy the equivalent of crossing the Gedrosian Desert? Why does Michiko Kakutani [The New York Times] think it pointless and boring to wake up early to watch the inauguration of the first democratically-elected president in sixteen years in a country of 130 million people?