Why I'm Tuning Out On All The Hullaballo On George H. W. Bush Senior (Guest Blog Post)
This post by Will Bunch at smirkingchimp.com, says it all:
Baca Juga
Excerpt:
There's an old maxim that funerals are not for the dead but for the living. If so, what are we to make of the nationally televised, days-long orgies of misty, watercolor memories from Beltway-insider politicos and elite journalists that erupt whenever a prominent national leader passes away?
True, nostalgia sells because it's must-see TV for the older-skewing audience addicted to cable news, but in a pundit-driven world where spin doesn't stop at the grave, the life of the recently departed is often reconfigured — if not starkly reinvented — to fit the politics of the living.
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