How Does Political Journalism Affect Voters?

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How does political journalism affect voters?

I want to sure there is ever been any different or at least not modern history, I mean Theodore life started right in the making the president serious in 1960 and Theodore wipes books were all process. There is no substance in them at all and you know generations have improved upon them models, so it has been a long time since we spent a long time in substance and look, I think it is fair not to blame the media for this entirely. I mean the business of politics has become in what we call the permanent campaign, right? I mean, there is a lot less governing going on, there is a lot less new, and this is just happening for a lot of reasons.

The TV age has a lot to do with it, the proliferation of different kinds of media but also the moment we are living and look, it is so hard to find answers to some of this problems, it is hard to tell difficult truth. It is much easier to resort to gamesmanship. It is much easier to fix your language than it is to fix bridge port. It is much easier not to think about the transition going on when the answers you have might be on popular or wrong or might do more harm than good and so, we have a lack of visionary leadership and into that void comes a tremendous amount of tactical sort of gamesmanship, atmospheric developments that have very little to do with the substance in governing, and the media does what the media does which it covers what it sees.

So I think there is playing a blame to go around and I think it does change. I do not want to take the responsibility off the media because there is certainly a lot of us are doing I think very substantive journalism and that really amounts to asking, constantly asking a set of questions that people do not really want to answer which is what I do much of my time and much of my writing. I always say it is not our job to have answers, it is our job to ask the right question and then we ask them again and again and again.

But I think we are also waiting for real leadership, I mean we were waiting for someone in the political process to step up and show us the way so that we can have more relevant, more profitable debate about and more productive debate about where the country is going than the one we have been having for long for the last 25 to 30 years and you know, I frankly to think that takes a generational change.

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