Reaganomics of Media Reporting
J. Patrick Coolican’s article “The Perils of Political Narrative,” was a very thought provoking assessment of the state of politics today. Even those trying to operate outside the conventional sphere find themselves slipping back into its rhetoric. I would say what Coolican is essentially doing is making an analogy for trickle down economics as it applies to the media. He and his colleagues both wrote and operated under the assumption that the culinary leadership was very strong and would provide a united front for which ever candidate she choose to support. This mirrored the same presumption that local and national media choose to operate under. Only on caucus day the union ended up going for Clinton as oppose to Obama, a complete one-eighty than what had been promised by the leadership. What happened as Coolican correctly points out, he and his colleagues who normally operate on the fringes bought into the false narrative, and “rehash[ed] the campaign machinery’s narrative. Someone how that message still penetrated the minds of the bloggers and independent thinkers.
