Press Corps = Junior High
Posted by MEC on August 7, 2008
Critics of the U.S. news media have occasionally likened the press corps to junior high, because so many reporters seem far more interested in being in with the Cool Kids and in gossiping about who “likes” whom than in reporting news we can use.
Politico’s Mike Allen provides reason to agree with that comparison. During an interview with Condoleezza Rice, he asked Rice whether she’d be willing to be Barack Obama’s vice president.
Considering that Rice has been a member of the Bush Administration since January 2001, the probability that Obama would ask her to be his VP is zero to “no way in hell”. That didn’t stop Allen from treating the presidential race like a school dance and wondering whether Rice would go with Obama if he invited her.
Rice gave a dignified and evasive answer to that question, so Allen switched tactics — he asked her who her Hollywood crush is.
This interview tells us a lot more about what goes on in Mike Allen’s mind than Allen probably wants us to know. Somebody please pass the brain bleach.
