| Many of the establishment media's worst habits arise from the doomed attempt to pursue... "bipartisanthink" -- in which journalists fetishize centrism and deal making, and assume that the best of all possible legislation, regardless of its actual content, is the kind that has both parties' fingerprints on it. By conflating the march of progress with the march of legislation through Congress, bipartisanthink allows journalists to take sides and root for particular outcomes without having to explicitly choose sides....The trouble is that when you set out to "lead" a conversation, you often end up deciding where it goes, which side wins the arguments and even who gets to participate...." |
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