2010-09-13 20:43:10.179226+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Hey, the New York Times is finally acknowledging the problem! Rick Perlstein: A Broader Media Problem:
The problem is that elite media gatekeepers have abandoned their moral mandate to stigmatize uncivil discourse. Instead, too many outlets reward it.
No. Shit.
Relatedly, in the comments to Ta Nehesi Coats in The Atlantic: Because There Are No Bigots..., commenter PeterBautista points out that the reaction to the Park51/Cordoba House community center development isn't necessarily one of reaction to the project itself, it's a reaction to the media coverage:
If you aren't from NYC, though, and you don't read the paper regularly, then your knowledge of the Cordoba center is more likely to come from hearing "ground zero mosque!" over and over again, very loudly, from our media noise machines. ...
So rather than pointing and laughing at those who oppose the project, we should be livid and irate at any "news" outlet that has adopted the "ground zero mosque" moniker given by Newt Gingrich and the similar attention whores.