How we all lose. Jay Rosen: Every Four Years Journalism. I agree with all of it. I also believe that the deeper problem is (as I always say) metaphorical. As Jay himself puts it (the bold faces are mine), The press should be breaking ground in the setting-it-straight business, with new and powerful means for correcting the candidates, the record, and itself. It should be learning how to report the idea race, as well as it does the horse race. It has to get up to speed on the transparency revolution and become a force for good. Having put good journalism on the Internet, it has to create a political journalism of the Internet, which is more difficult.
The problem is the "race" metaphor. It's sports. The media (Jay, myself and other bloggers included) cover elections as sports events, rather than as collective decisions about representation and leadership. It's unavoidable, and I don't know how to stop it. Bonus Link: The Top 50. [The Doc Searls Weblog]
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