{"id":24317,"date":"2017-06-29T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24317"},"modified":"2017-06-29T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T16:38:55","slug":"feeding-frenzy-in-the-echo-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24317","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Frenzy in the Echo Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWillem de Kooning Police Gazette <\/b>1955<\/center>The best comment on the June 13 Jeff Sessions Senate testimony, and I\u2019m sorry I forgot who made it, was that it looked like an episode of Seinfeld. A show about nothing. Still, an awful lot of voices tried to make it look like it was something life- and game-changing. It was not. Not anymore than Comey\u2019s testimony was, at least not in the sense that those eager to have these testimonies take place would have liked it to be.<\/p>\n

Comey shone more of an awkward light on himself rather than on Donald Trump, by admitting that he had leaked info on a private conversation with the president he served at the time. Not quite nothing, but very little to satisfy the anti-Trump crowd. It\u2019s just that there\u2019s so many in that crowd, and most in denial, that you wouldn\u2019t know it unless you paid attention.<\/p>\n

To cut to the chase of the issue, it\u2019s no longer possible -or at least increasingly difficult- to find coverage in the US -and European- press of anything related to either Trump or Russia that doesn\u2019t come solidly baked in a partisan opinionated sauce.<\/p>\n

For instance, I have a Google News page, somewhat personalized, and I haven\u2019t been able to open it for quite some time without the top news articles focusing on Trump and\/or Russia, and all the ones at the very top are invariably from the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, Politico et al.<\/p>\n

But I am not interested in those articles. These \u2018news\u2019 outlets -and you really must ask whether using the word \u2018news\u2019 is appropriate here- dislike anything Trump and Putin so much, for some reason, that all they do is write \u2018stuff\u2019 in a 24\/7 staccato beat based on innuendo and allegations, quoted from anonymous sources that may or may not actually exist.<\/p>\n

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