Desiring Machine

In the blogging world there has been an extensive discussion of the decline of political journalism. A lot of the time the debate revolves around partisan politics, with complaints of uneven coverage. At other times the debate rages over the corrupting commercial influence.

Personally I think there is simply a decline in seriousness and hypersensitivity to perceived criticism, even if it is rational critique. The end effect is to depoliticize and race to the lowest common denominator.

Well here is further evidence. What the hell is the Washington Post doing writing about plumber’s crack and dickies jeans?

I understand that newspapers need fashion sections and human interest. But Dickies corporate policy on plumber’s crack? Give me a break. Call me an elitist, but I don’t understand what the Washington Post is doing publishing this kind of crap, when we have wars, terror threats, and serious political change underfoot. And this is from the same publication that was lecturing us on how Jon Stewart is the enemy of democracy. Spare me.

I guess it is up to Comedy Central and the bloggers to elevate the discussion. Our media has failed miserably.