The
formerly great Washington Post Bezos Bugle's political pundit and member in good standing of the Beltway Village
Chris "Cillizard" Cillizza is rightfully being taken to task by
Salon's Simon Maloy and, by extension
Esquire's Charles P. Pierce, for his ridiculous notion that his job as a "journalist" is not to correct an erroneous perception when it trumps reality, but to simply to report on the erroneous perception. Case in point: the perception from months ago that the Affordable Care Act is bound to fail, due to the botched "Obamacare" roll-out, must trump all subsequent news to the contrary (e.g., the latest Congressional Budget Office report
shows the ACA is succeeding). Cillizard is one of the Beltway Village's most reliable "both sides are to blame" ink wasters (along with the stenographers at
Politico), and represents a broken media that is supposed to fact check, tell the truth, and keep the record straight, but which instead concerns itself with perception, who won the media cycle, and political spin.
(Image: "Missed it by
that much!")
