Wilkinson vents:
I think the problem with the American media is that it’s full of Americans who overestimate the importance of American micro-politics, and so, consciously or subconsciously, undertake every damn story as a public-opinion-shaping framing [or] counter-framing exercise and eventually forget how to report the obvious interpretation of events.
This last week of breathless coverage has weaned me off cable for a while.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/02/micro-pundits/205956/
