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Moronic Media: Let Them Eat Cheeseburgers! » Publications » Family Security Matters

One really can’t satirize this kind of “journalism.” All one can do is point out its awfulness, its neglect, its illiteracy, its ignorance. It is the kind of “journalism” the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission must have in mind in the way of its “reinvention.” It was written for public consumption, as entertainment. It could have been a White House press release. The article could also have appeared in The National Enquirer, headlined: “Russian and American Presidents on First Date!” Subtitled: “They’ll keep in contact, says Medvedev. Romance blooming?”

On June 24 Yahoo! News carried an Associated Pressitem on the meeting that day between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Washington. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss differences in foreign policy between the United States and Vladimir Putin’s personal preserve. It is fairly common knowledge that Medvedev is simply Prime Minister Putin’s ventriloquist’s dummy.

But the author of the AP article, Ben Feller, decided to downplay the seriousness of the meeting by focusing on food and folks. Matters like nuclear weapons, the Russian invasion of Georgia, strife in Kyrgyzstan, and the World Trade Organization were relegated to subsidiary importance. Not mentioned in the article were Russia’s aid in helping Iran generate nuclear weapons fuel or the missile defense system in Eastern Europe which Obama dropped on Putin’s growling insistence. One can’t know if these matters occurred to Feller at all. He did remember the Soviet adventure in Afghanistan, but only as a sly dig at the U.S. presence there today.