If People Do Not Know, They Cannot Care

While I'm listening to Gov. Walker's pep rally/Bullsh!t festival, I pulled up the Awl's great post about the misreading of the ground game in Madison, WI:

If the events in Wisconsin prove one thing, it is that the mainstream media has become journalistically irrelevant when it comes to national issues and coverage. Broadcast media is incapable of explaining anything outside a macropatriotic framework and has proven allergic to anything that puts off even the slightest whiff of the class warfare that scares away big-market advertorial. Meanwhile, the other side is cable news' partisan echo chamber of regurgitated self-assurance, where no blow is too low and no fact needs sourcing before being leveraged to make a prearranged point. Cable news reporting on Wisconsin is like going to a whorehouse and then bragging to your buddies about this girl you seduced.

It's hard to watch Walker's happy talk (punctuated by his minions eagerly applauding every break in the blather) and not wonder if Wisconsin's Union protesters are reaching the eyeballs they need.