This is an excerpt from an op ed piece written by Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, in the New York Times today:
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Bowling 1, Health Care 0 Chapel Hill, N.C.
FOR the last month, news media attention was focused on Pennsylvania and its Democratic primary. Given the gargantuan effort, what did we learn?
Well, the rancor of the campaign was covered. The amount of money spent was covered. But...the information about the candidates’ priorities, policies and principles — information that voters will need to choose the next president — too often did not make the cut...
Why? Here’s my guess: The vigorous press that was deemed an essential part of democracy at our country’s inception is now consigned to smaller venues, to the Internet and, in the mainstream media, to occasional articles...every analysis that is shortened, every corner that is cut, moves us further away from the truth until what is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news, or what I call strobe-light journalism, in which the outlines are accurate enough but we cannot really see the whole picture...
View the full article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/opinion/27edwards.html?th&emc=th
