How Soon They Forget

From Charles Mudede at The Slog, an illuminating look at our president's take on the free press:

"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.

Mudede says, "Recall Plato, recall what he hated most: doxa, opinion."

See Obama, faithfully and thoughtfully expressing the opinions of the corporate press.

May I hold up the likes of Talking Points Memo, Orcinus, Hullaballoo, Dispatches from the Culture Wars? Against the likes of Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, William Kristol, Maureen Dowd, NYT, WaPo?

Jeebus.