Columbia Journal Review Discovers Novel Political Sarcasm


Oh look guys, someone else is jumping all over the smug sarcasm/reverse psychology train that's being conducted by Leonardo DiCaprio and has Demi and Ashton as a caboose.

While there's been a lot of good, wholesome fun poked at John McCain for coining "gotcha" journalism this week, Columbia Journalism Review takes things a little overboard with their McSweeney's style eye-roll at the media that attacks poor, defenseless Sarah Palin:

Where is the deference, Random Grad Student? Sarah Palin has done nothing but volunteer to serve the nation—our nation—by being A Heartbeat Away From The Presidency; how dare you ask her about the situation in some foreign country? Have you left no sense of decency?

This behavior simply cannot continue. The audacity we’ve seen in our media of late—Katie Couric, as you may have heard, recently had the temerity to ask Palin about the economy—is becoming a disgrace to the profession, and an insult to all Americans. Those who care about journalism and its future must unite against such misbegotten attempts to inform the electorate.

Yeah, fuck sincerity. All press is now hereby required to write articles like The Onion or The Colbert Report.

Oct 2, 2008 · posted by drew · Link · Respond
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