Monday, September 13, 2010

Neal Gabler blames the media...

...for last week's circus involving Terry Jones. I agree.

Gabler offers -- what I hope -- is the last word on the subject (my emphasis):

As many folks have observed, the phenomenon of a no-account Florida preacher with a handful of congregants becoming the focus of international attention is more than a little weird. It’s like your nutty neighbor suddenly deciding to burn a Quran. Who would care? Who would even know?
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2 comments:

  1. Joe TracySeptember 13, 2010 at 1:43 PM

    great article.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/this-is-how-the-media-wor_n_712229.html

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  2. mtracySeptember 13, 2010 at 7:16 PM

    Jason Linkins thinks Terry Jones played the media. Neal Gabler thinks the media played Jones.

    Either way, this whole non-issue got way too much attention. (And Chris Matthews was one of the worst offenders.)

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