Dr. Bush and Mr. Bush
Daniel Froomkin notes the transformation of George W. Bush--that is, the transformation in what the mainstream media tells us about George W. Bush:
Now They Tell Us: Is Bush the commanding, decisive, jovial president you've been hearing about for years in so much of the mainstream press?
Maybe not so much.
Judging from the blistering analyses in Time, Newsweek, and elsewhere these past few days, it turns out that Bush is in fact fidgety, cold and snappish in private. He yells at those who dare give him bad news and is therefore not surprisingly surrounded by an echo chamber of terrified sycophants. He is slow to comprehend concepts that don't emerge from his gut. He is uncomprehending of the speeches that he is given to read. And oh yes, one of his most significant legacies -- the immense post-Sept. 11 reorganization of the federal government which created the Homeland Security Department -- has failed a big test.... [Bush] is, after all, undeniably an unpopular president now.... [F]or whatever reason, critical observations and insights that for so long have been zealously guarded by mainstream journalists, and only doled out in teaspoons if at all, now seem to be flooding into the public sphere....
Dan is wrong. These critical observations and insights have been doled out by elite journaists at dinner parties for years.
Ausführlicher steht das alles noch hier.
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