in The Nation. Alterman asks, “Why, after everyone else has given it up, do members of the mainstream media persist in helping to hide—and therefore empower—the radicalization of the Republican Party?”
I see a direct parallel between the ostensibly-news-gathering media and the cultural report-and commentariat. A similar question to Alterman’s could easily be posed, ‘Why have we allowed the ‘mainstream’ media to impose a pin-point wide definiton of culture worth reporting?”