"We Get the Media We Deserve..."

Two items well worth reading from yesterday's blogosphere:

Glenn Greenwald on the trivial, gossipy, buck-chasing pursuit inappropriately termed "journalism" by practitioners such as Politico's John Harris, and

tbogg on "Wowie" Howie Kurtz' lamentation on the buyouts at the Washington Post and whither the print media in the age of the internet tubes (shorter: Howie's met the enemy, but he doesn't know it's him).

And one from today's WaPo: Attaturk on Richard Cohen's crisp analysis of the essence of the Obama/McBush world view dynamic (shorter: Obama's too soft, McBush is too hard, McObama is juuuust right!).