Media criticism, from Elizabeth Edwards to Brian Williams to Glenn Greenwald

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Submitted by lucidity on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 9:55am.

Here's an interesting exchange: Elizabeth Edwards writes an op-ed in the New York Times blasting the media's refusal (yet again) to cover any issue of substance duringa presidential campaign (snarkily titled "Bowling 1, Health Care 0"). Brian Williams, "liberal news" anchor with NBC, sneers at Edwards and says folks should go read Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal instead (choice quote: "Hillary Clinton is not Barack Obama's problem. America is Mr. Obama's problem."). And then Glenn Greenwald smacks them both down.

Elizabeth Edwards' Op-Ed critiquing our media's vapidity prompts multiple paragraphs of trite NYT bashing. Peggy Noonan's insistence that Barack Obama's love of America is in question among the Gate 14 crowd (in contrast to the Ultimate Patriot John McCain) — a column that is dumb and disgusting in exactly equal measure — prompts a Pulitzer nomination from our leading News Anchor and deep praise. That's because we have a Liberal Media.