Wednesday, December 31, 2003
There's an article in the Washington Post about Bush hating yet, while there is truth to this, it somehow fails to convince. The two groups of people the writer identifies (and the second, bloggers, aren't mentioned but their existence is implied) are extremely small segments of the world population, he seems to fall into the trap of many journalists (just as many bloggers do too) of over-estimating the size of his cohort. Yes, journalists are important to the process, it was The Sun wot saved John Major's political arse in the 1991 election but to base an article on Bush-hatred on the odd person willing to stick their head above the parapit to have a pop is the wrong way to go about it, after all, what about the scads of journos willing to have Dubya's babies over the last three years, reproductive equipment willing or no? Admittedly, to write such an article would have required doing research beyond reading the local newspapers and hey, it's Christmas, who wants to bother with that?
