Ana Marie Cox had a great tribute to independent thought in the Washington Post the other day. I’m just getting around to linking to it, but it is a great piece, succinctly demonstrating what many of us have always known: you don’t think critically about something that is your “privilege” to be in on.
Read the whole thing. Here’s a snippet:
Intense interest in the Obama administration has swelled the ranks of the White House press corps. Outlets such as Politico have thrown a basketball team’s worth of bodies at the project, and outlets that didn’t even exist until recently — Fivethirtyeight.com, the Huffington Post — have created their own White House correspondent positions.
Yet too often, the White House briefing room is where news goes to die.
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