NYT colum­nist Frank Rich, who must lack a tiny bit of self-irony, takes aim at the ‘blovi­at­ors’ cov­er­ing the Obama cam­paign. But in the course of his mus­ings a little internet-inspired doubt creeps in. :

Journ­al­ists are still Amer­ic­ans — even if much of our audi­ence doubts that — and in this time of grave uncer­tainty about our nation’s future we may simply be as dis­com­bob­u­lated as every­one else.

We, too, are made anxious and fear­ful by hard eco­nomic times and the pro­spect of wrench­ing change. You­Tube, the medium that has trans­formed our cul­ture and polit­ics, didn’t exist four years ago. Con­tinue read­ing →