Ack-Ack

clipped from www.davidwarrenonline.com In the public order I recall from my youth, there was still some general understanding of such things. At the hint of serious public (as opposed to personal) scandal, journalistic and political forces were certainly deployed. But I do not recall the withering ack-ack and “gotcha!” that has become the hourly routine in our media. What President Clinton called “the politics of personal destruction” -- and assiduously practised -- has become the norm. It is made worse by the overwhelming left-bias of the mainstream news media, where the targets are selected consistently from one side. My impression is that the politicians caught the disease from the journalists. By now, from all sides, we have abandoned most discussion of public policy and intention, and all parties indulge in a child’s game, to “gotcha” and “[noun]-gate” one another, interspersed with expressions of hypocritical outrage when each in turn is hit.