Media Sins: Molly Ivins

Oketo was just saying the other day how many 'important' people from 'our time' had recently died.
Well, most of America might not know her, but the sharpest blow to me was the death today of Molly Ivins.
The single biggest crime of the mainstream media over the last decade was the mistaken, mythological halo they granted to George W. Bush. He, they said, was the 'uniter', not the 'divider'. He played well with others. He listened. He was his own man. He empathized with the common man.
As we now know, this was nothing BUT mythology. And to understand (and report) the truth, all the national political reporters and news anchors needed to do to was read Shrub by Molly Ivins. What Bush was when she covered him as Governor of Texas, he became as President of the United States. All the hours those reporters spent on press planes and at the media events and talking to each other...well, they simply needed to fill a couple of those hours by reading her book. Had they done that, America would not be in the miserable shape it is today. They would have understood what was about to happen.
Molly Ivins was there, testifying.
But not enough people listened.

diderot