| Shailagh Murray and Paul Kane are Staff Writers for the Washington Post. Murray has been featured here at ALP quite a few times over the years. Today these two have a major article in the Post ostensibly about the Obama administration setting the tone in Washington. You should read this piece and see if you know anything more having done so.
Frankly, I am appalled. Murray and Kane set this up as if we are to suspect that all the old soldiers are going to try to fight their old battles along familiar lines. Then they report that Rahm Emanuel thinks this is a new time with new issues and new bipartisanship. Is any of this news?
What it looks like to me is a bag of miscellany scooped and packed into an article to fill the place where serious reporting of the "new tone" could have been. Why can't the Post writers ask intelligent questions about how Congress is going to get past the old bitter partisanship? Why do these writers accept as gospel that the global warming initiatives are DOA? Isn't this a bit "previous" and doesn't it mask deals in the background that the writers should be reporting on?
If this is what we are going to be getting from the Post in the future, we need to find a different paper!
JB |
