PressEthic

In my last blog, I expressed some grievances about the contentious Clinton interview on Fox News. After thinking about this for a few days, and weighing the opinions of a multitude of sage pundits, I realize that my grievances were pretty damn green. Of course, in an ideal world, it would have been great to get the straight news on the Clinton Global Initiative. But perhaps that just isn't the nature of the beast. It's election season, he's the ex-president, Fox News is very political - what else could we reasonably expect to happen? Of course they were going to try to shake things up a bit. In the media aftermath of that interview, every tabloid that I have seen has been publicizing the ensuing war of words. He said, she said, she said that he said that she said...blah. It's only posturing, light as air. Clinton's interview just created a new opportunity for the two sides to blast each other. They have to, because neither party can afford to lose face during an election. Once a stone has been thrown, it has to be thrown back and forth until nobody can remember what the original issue was, and I suppose its Journalism's duty to foist this bullshit on the public. If only Condi and Hillary could just arm wrestle for public opinion. Wouldn't that be alot more fun?