Mar 1, 20080
Voters’ Motivations: A Rant
I’ve been reading a lot of political coverage this primary season—too much for my or anyone’s health and sanity. And in the course of that reading I’ve developed a number of pet peeves about political reporting. Many of these, I realize, are common and long-standing complaints: from the echo-chamber aspect of it all to the too-predictable cycle that carries “news” from a campaign conference call on Day 0 to sites like TPM and Politico on Day 1 to articles in the newspapers and in Slate on Day 2.
But one major complaint that I haven’t seen aired before is that both the campaigns and the news media appear to share an assumption that seems to me mostly unwarranted. [Read more]
