One of the most annoying and condescending and sheer lazy-assed things they do in America's alleged journalism is replacing "man on the street" type interviews with ignorant people for more difficult, more risky and more expensive reporting of fact. It is condescending and the inevitable assumption is that the ignoramuses they choose are representatives of the great, ignorant, always assumed to be conservative, common consensus. Of course, if they stuck to reporting fact instead of this kind of crap, the American People would be far less ignorant and bigoted than the journalist-class of folk would ever want to believe us to be able to be.
I don't know how National Public Radio ever got away with this but what they do on Morning Edition by way of that reached a new low with the dopey woman Steve Inskeep consulted on her ignorant, ill informed and obviously stupid support of Donald Trump and her clear hostility to Hillary Clinton. NPR has already distinguished itself as being among the worst venues covering the presidential election this year but this interview and, I'll bet you anything, the promised post-VP "debate" interview to see if she changed her mind listening to it (yeah, right) is even stupider.
If I met Steve Inskeep right now, I don't think I could keep myself from socking him in the mush.
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