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Saturday, August 27, 2011

What If Journalists Stopped Trying to Be Political Insiders? - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic

What If Journalists Stopped Trying to Be Political Insiders? - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
Posted by RAYLOKE at 6:15 PM

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  1. RAYLOKEAugust 27, 2011 at 6:15 PM

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    When journalists define politics as a game played by the insiders, their job description becomes: find out what the insiders are doing to "win" the game. Reveal those tactics to the public because then the public can... well, this is where it gets dodgy. As my friend Todd Gitlin once wrote, news coverage that treats politics as an insiders' game invites the public to become "cognoscenti of their own bamboozlement."

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