{"id":5554,"date":"2008-07-19T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/07\/onion-saterizes-msm-coverage-o.html"},"modified":"2008-07-19T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T12:27:57","slug":"onion-saterizes-msm-coverage-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/07\/onion-saterizes-msm-coverage-o.html","title":{"rendered":"Onion saterizes MSM coverage of Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best satire is based in truth, I guess that’s why this piece by the Onion on Obama works so well<\/a>. You’ve read pieces like this, it’s not a stretch:<\/p>\n

Time managing editor Rich Stengel said he was proud of the Obama puff piece, and that he hoped it would help to redefine the boundaries of journalistic drivel.
\n“When the American people cast their vote this November, this is the piece of fluff they’re going to remember,” Stengel said. “Not the ones by Newsweek, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Economist, Nightline, The Wall Street Journal, or even that story about lessons Obama learned from his first-grade teacher we ran a month ago.”
\nThe article, which follows Obama for 12 days during his campaign, was written by reporter Chris Sherwood, and is relentless in its attempt to capture the candidate at his most poised and polished. Sherwood said the profile easily trumps all other fluff pieces in its effort to expose the presidential candidate for who he really is: “an awesome guy.”
\n[…]
\n“I’m not quite sure how he intends to turn around the economy or get us out of Iraq,” said California resident Geoff Mills, an ardent Obama supporter who read the Time story. “But any man who prefers his steak cooked medium-rare has my vote.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

hehehe!
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