Media Literacy

"The voracious campaign press, competing daily for new material, whips small stories into twenty-four-hour firestorms. A week later, the details fade into obscurity, replaced by some new blowup, all of them distractions for voters trying to understand the issues and decide for themselves who our next President should be."
Patrick Caldwell, former intern for the Nation Institute, reflecting on the mass media's instant but short-lived reaction to his online story that the Clinton campaign had tried to plant a question at a public event.
from http://www1.medialiteracy.com/ accessed 1/27/08