On Big Journalism The Tiny Little Imprisoned Minds That Bring You the News

Note: This is different (and much better) than the one appearing on the Lid the other day. I changed based on some of your comments.

The Tiny Little Imprisoned Minds That Bring You the News

Trying to write eight-ten articles a day makes one something of a news junkie. Between 7 a.m. and 1 a.m., whole days are spent reading one of the 607 news feeds I have input into my feed reader, following up stories on the phone and maneuvering the TV remote between CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and when I can find it, even the BBC. Thanks to an agile thumb, at times I can follow the same story on all the networks at the same time.
Watching that mostly distorted coverage can drive a blogger crazy. And worse it makes one think really nasty things about the media. But no longer, no more negative thoughts.  I’ve had an epiphany. Now I feel nothing but sympathy for these reporters who used to be the object of my scorn. You see they can’t help themselves. The mainstream media is not biased, they have tiny brains. That’s why the tunnel vision.  These reporters are taught to categorize things into neat little boxes and do not have the capacity to think beyond those categories

Please go to Big Journalism and read the rest, Click here http://bigjournalism.com/jdunetz/2010/09/01/the-tiny-little-imprisoned-minds-that-bring-you-the-news/