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you can't necessarily rely on the press to function as a critic of the administration if the problems generated by it are understood as potentially big enough the issue into a political crisis--the press is a loyal opposition, so it's function is internal critic in a context understood as stable or legitimate.
i say this while still being confused about the articles that appeared the day after the nec report came out on iran that seemed geared around defusing their implications. the following day came the information about the cia destroying tapes of some potentially---um---problematic interrogations, which was not followed by the same kind of management infotainment--so i assume that what's happening is (rather, what could appear to be happening if you assume co-ordination of information) a kind of extended damage control operation--first the nec, then those curious articles about how "complicated" everything is in terms of information-gathering, then a hit on the cia under goss--legit in itself, worth invetigating in itself--but if you add it up, it also can be read as a distancing move (why now regarding the tapes given that they were destroyed a couple years ago)..a kind of "then it was bad, now it's better--see, we're self-correcting thing.
this without information about the infotainment streams behind this series of stories, and so without any particular guess as to whether there *is* in fact co-ordination of infotainment.
but it does seem a bit odd, don't you think?
as for the democrats, you know the division of power in congress hasn't changed and so paralysis 6 months ago is still paralysis now.
so if pressure is to come on the administration, it would have to come from outside conventional politics---but of course its xmas and its cold out and there's no-one organizing anything and besides, there are commodities to buy in order to express how one feels about family members and all that.
strange business all the way round.
not good, either.
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