Taibbi: The Sovietization Of The American Press

Taibbi speaks truth, as usual.

   Taibbi thinks it's bad that the American press used to only represent a narrow part of the political spectrum--from moderate Republican to moderate Democrat--as reasonable. I don't actually think that's a bad mistake--and maybe not a mistake at all. Those probably are our realistic options in practical terms. Anything more radical on either end is probably a huge mistake. The places to discuss more radical options on either end are classrooms and journals and bars. But anyway: he's clearly right that the current situation is much, much worse: the only reasonable options basically run the gamut from the Democratic center to the Democratic (far, I'd add) left.

   This is an extremely dangerous state of affairs IMO. A blueprint for disaster.

   At any rate, read Taibbi.