Clinton "finally conceded the election for real" yesterday?

Notice, though, that Stanley doesn't have the courage to take credit for the editorializing here, instead hiding behind a notional horde of anonymous "viewers", saying:

for plenty of viewers, it was the moment when Mrs. Clinton finally conceded the election for real.

it was the moment when Mrs. Clinton finally conceded the election for real.

As I read this, I am thinking about Palin and her neverending campaign. This morning at the Governor's conference, Biden welcomed her in his speech. Paraphrasing, he said, "She and I both know that once the campaign is over, the media forget you even exist. Maybe after the conference here, I will take a walk outside with her and see if we can get her noticed."

This is exactly why I hoped Obama would pick someone else. The Clinton drama never ends for the press.

Self-absorbed titlation and self-affected egos! What a volitile concoction permeating our 1st Amendment protected noble profession we used to call journalism! -Kevo

Heh, Hillary Clinton conceded for real at that magnificent Convention speech. Almost all Democrats will long remember that well-done, very magnanimous delivery with no snark I could detect. But that's how reporters operate: they must inject story spice where it doesn't belong, but ignore very real issues that their corpomedia or cocktail ties make it hard for them to move out.

I have my problems with Clinton but honestly almost all the 'Clinton Drama'(tm) is manufactured by a press corp obsessed with personality and soap operas.

The nature of reporting/journalism has long since passed from attracting readers to attracting attention - facts need not apply for current openings. The new job title/description should be MSU-er (making sht up).

CDS is as virulent as it ever was.

We all just need to remember what the Corporate Slut called Chuck Todd said: "Our 'narratives' are more important than the actual reality or truth". And, as a result we get all the made up story lines of the Corporate Media so that they CAN HAVE SOMETHING TO DO TO JUSTIFY THEIR MILLION DOLLAR PAYDAYS. Thus, they keep pretending that our country is 'still' a center/ right country no matter what the actual facts are. And, of course, they themselves are 'center/right' journalists. So, of course, because of their own sense of self-importance, the entire country must be just like them. And they need to do that in order to pretend to themselves that they are 'relevant'. In reality they are one of the greatest dangers to our country, our democracy. Let us remember the 'role these corporate cum sluts played in getting us into Iraq: just for starters.

If you needed any additional proof that the media is staffed with people who haven't advanced emotionally since junior high, here it is. I really, really, really don't get this bizarre fixation on the Clintons that the media has.

It's the damn 24/7 news cycle and internet blogs that are accounting for the making of drama in this and other election news. If there is no "news" to report 24/7, then some has to be "manufactured" to fill the space.

Hillary could wind up being the best SoS we ever had, and a few schnozzles in the media would choose the narrative "Well, what choice did she have?" I'm half-surprised they don't all make meowing nosies whenever she gets onstage goading her into some kind of hissy fit they're all convinced she's capable of having, and are all pissed off that they've never got the chance to see, like children who get upset that they always fall asleep before Santa arrives, and this year, if they try really hard, they'll catch him in the act and 7AM already? I MISSED HIM! DAMN YOU SANTAAAAAA! DAMN YOU HILLARYYYYYY!"

"Pundits" Maureen Dowd and Christopher Hitchens are like Charlie Brown in the pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to fly through the air with presents for all the good boys and girls. Except that what they're waiting for is the moment when Hillary Clinton steals the Democratic nomination from Obama. The fact that the election is over and he's won won't stop them from speculating when she'll pull off her coup, and start pursuing her own agenda. They will never, ever give up that narrative.

...like Charlie Brown in the pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin to fly through the air... - T-Rex

That was Linus, and for most of the night, Lucy. Charlie Brown went trick-or-treating, and ended up with a collection of rocks. I miss being a kid.

This is so crazy. Isn't there a way to report Presidential news without a) repeating the party line or b) making shit up?

For most viewers it was the moment the Times finally admitted it's fiction....