Yglesias has a good point here. The McCain campaign’s ability to frame their message around a series of demonstrable lies is only possible because most of the press takes an agnostic position on whether his messages and ads are true or not. But if the press won’t, don’t we need to stop relying on the mainstream press to make that point? That’s a very tall proposition. But this is a pattern we’ve seen cycle after cycle. Complaining about it only achieves a sort meaningless moral victory.
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