"attack poodles and other media mutants"

Media critic James Wolcott is interviewed in Salon and talks about his book (title above) that rips the "yapping universe" of the right-wing media's "attack poodles", the dumbed-down deterioration of CNN, and the absence of any responsible adults in the media in general.

And, speaking of the alien taking-over of the media, I love this, from Atrios:

I've noticed watching Wolf Blitzer over the past few days that the reality as presented by the Bush administration is the reality that he, and much of the rest of the TV news media, convey to the public. It isn't simply a disagreement over certain issues, it's the ingestion and regurgitation of an entire alternative reality world which has been served up by the Bush administration and eagerly spit back out by those in the media. It isn't simply about successful framing of the issues; they've managed to provide an entire canvas, a brilliant oil painting of bullshit. It's impossible for Democrats and other people who are actually living in this world and not the one which the Bush administration has erected around the CNN studios to break through this. It's one thing to challenge errors, or provide a different spin, or reframe an issue. It's another thing to have to tear down the very fabric of this alternate reality.