MSM is full of it

The following blurb was on First Read, which is MSNBC political blog.

Stealing The Spotlight: Edwards’ poverty tour comes to an end today, with stops in Virginia and Kentucky and a major speech. Per the campaign, Edwards will use this speech to sum his three-day tour and talk about the faces of poverty he met. Yet partly overshadowing Day Two of the tour was wife Elizabeth’s comments to Salon about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t as incendiary as Drudge made them out to be, but Elizabeth still made news -- as she did when she called Ann Coulter, or when it was revealed her cancer had returned. And now there’s a brand new campaign TV ad that features her, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported on TODAY this morning. We knew it was possible that a spouse might become the story in this presidential race. But just we also thought it would be Bill, not Elizabeth Edwards.


This is the kind of passive story that the MSM puts out there that can drive you insane. It seems like NBC news is saying that “Gee we would really like to cover the substance of the Edwards campaign, but it just out of our hands”. The reason Elizabeth Edwards is the bigger story is you made the choice for it to be the story. Chris Matthews interviewed John Edwards yesterday on Hardball and half the five minute interview was about Elizabeth in one way or another. Instead of taking some of the responsibility for their actions as far was is and is not a story, the MSM says that we report what people are interested in and they have no control over content. NBC news represents a large part of the small group of entities that provide news and information for the majority of Americans, and for them to say they have no control of the flow of news is simply insulting.