Tone is Important

Earlier this week I wrote HERE:

The tone of the media is important. As in you click open THIS POST and immediately think "holy crap, the secessionists in Texas are going bonkers." But then you see that 200 people were there. As in 0.000008% of the population of Texas. As in way fewer than the tens of thousands of people who I assume read ThinkProgress every day. And while it's kinda fun to read about that stuff cause it's always fun to watch and make fun of idiots, you gotta wonder why it's even news that gets presented that seriously on such a large platform. Interesting.

Today Yglesias writes:

Combining the House and Senate, there are over 500 people in congress. That provides for a lot of “at home” public events. If you decide you’re only going to cover the one percent of those events that feature outlier events, then you present the public with a very distorted view of things. And to take a bit of a self-critical look at things, this dynamic wasn’t helped by the rise of a left-wing mass media (blogs, Rachel Maddow, etc.) that was more interested in poking fun at the nuttiest voices on the right than in trying to amplify the concerns of pro-reform voters.

Speaking of tone, Christopher Walken says it funnier than anybody:




Hmm. I never noticed he's listening to mine slice. Awesome.