Turning Point

A commenter on a Mudville Gazette piece about CBS' coverage of the election noted:

It's like 1989 all over again. The media has been forced to reluctantly acknowledge something beautiful and wonderful is happening: the birth of a new democracy.

When Dan "The Soviet people like communism" Rather started talking about the positive changes in Eastern Europe, you knew the Soviets were done. Now he's reporting positive news from Iraq.

I'm going to indulge in fantasy here: maybe the media (as oppose to the left, to whom the media largely belong but whom the media don't completely represent) learned its lesson in Eastern Europe, where they all but declared democracy dead within a year of the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. It made them look (to those who care, an admittedly small number) stupid.

I know. Probably not. The American public doesn't have a 15 year attention span, why would the media that helped make them that way?

A guy can dream, can't he?

Posted by Mitch at February 1, 2005 06:47 AM | TrackBack