Politico laments the "smallness" of the 2012 campaign. Jamelle Bouie blasts back:
The monstrous truth of this dynamic is that it’s driven by political journalists. They are the ones who breathlessly cover campaign tweets in a desperate bid for web traffic, they are the ones who act as glorified opposition researchers, evaluating claims on the basis of whether they’ll be used in an ad, and not whether they’re accurate or truthful. The obsessive focus on trivia, the constant search for gaffes—these are things generated by the political press. … With little effort, you can easily imagine a more substantive and interesting treatment of the presidential campaign; journalists could inform readers, rather than exhaust them with vapid minutiae.
Regarding the above video, the original clip that Andrea Mitchell ran of Romney is here.
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