(9:09 AM) | Adam Kotsko:

My Response to the Manifesto

Orcinus has posted a tentative manifesto on the bastardization of the media. I think it is worth reading, but there are several fundamental flaws:

1. It is clearly the document of a partisan Democrat, and as such it attributes to Clinton a degree of foreknowledge that is simply implausible.
   
2. It misidentifies the problem with the media -- it's not that the media is too "conservative [e.g. Republican]." The problem is that the media is too corporate. All problems in this regard will not be solved by the election of a Democrat, since Clinton and the Democrats share the blame for the bastardization of the media.

That said, I highly recommend Robb's CD-change post and hope he follows through on his promise to deliver several such posts in rapid succession. (I wasn't going to post at all today, but this manifesto thing seemed to me to demand comment.)

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