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Thursday, September 01, 2005

Has Salon.com jumped the shark?

I'm entering a period of disillusionment with Salon.com. It's often a fun and provocative read, with distinctive subject matter and coverage. But it has been reminding me increasingly of the classic teevee.org parody, which led with the article "How George W. Bush Ruined Television." Hatred for George W. Bush and especially anything to do with his Iraq policy is becoming the lens through which Salon views all sorts of subjects. And with little separation between news and opinion coverage, the Salon institutional viewpoint has an unbecoming "yellow journalism" quality.

Salon's Katrina coverage reached the top of my personal levee with this story: War efforts diverted funding

That's right, it's not that New Orleans has been sitting there in a bowl for hundreds of years dodging bullets and deflecting BB's with its ancient earthworks (a toxic "witch's brew" of a mixed metaphor there)--blame for this crisis lies with implicitly bad policy decisions: "FEMA is not the only agency that found itself bled of required funding by White House decisions after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11." The real villain here is George W. Bush and the crazy policy decisions he made after some episode a few years back involving planes and buildings. And let's not forget that he actually caused Katrina to build to catastrophic strength by declining to sign the Kyoto Protocol.

This crisis would not be unfolding materially differently under President Kerry or President Gore, or under President Johnson for that matter. That's an untestable proposition, of course, but can anyone seriously doubt it?

Wading through so many attempts to score political points is a tiresome way to get the news, whether the medium is Fox News or Salon.com.


posted at 2:14 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger MWR said...

Can it really be called spam when it's about cat furniture?

But then . . . talk about a bait-and-switch. There isn't even any cat furniture there! NOW WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?!

September 01, 2005 3:55 PM  

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