Relentless mockery by bloggers does have an influence on how Bigfoot reporters go about their job. Eventually, they anticipate the mockery and take precautions against it. Ideally, this involves fact-checking but it also takes this form...paragraphs that begin:Bottom line, Broder's convinced it's April 1993, not 2009. To these guys, it's always 1993, and the GOP ascendancy is just around the corner.
First, the data that shout that I am wrong.That's how David Broder transitions from his lede to his argument in today's column. This is a form of fact-checking, albeit one in which the facts are checked only so that they can be ignored. You can call it a half-step in the right direction. At least it demonstrates the first signs of self-awareness. Broder, as is always his want, is writing yet another column about the greatness of bipartisanship and centrism. But he knows that the Republicans unanimously rejected the budget and nearly-unanimously rejected the stimulus. He knows that the 61% partisan divide in presidential approval is at an historic high for this period in a new presidency. In the past, he might have just ignored these facts but today he takes them head-on. Of course, his procedure is to ignore other facts.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Broder's Making Stuff Up Again
What BooMan said.
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