The Atlantic - "False Equivalence in One Tweet" - Nice! [View all]

[TomCADem]

This excerpt says it all about how the false equivalence of the media obscures the current debate:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/false-equivalence-in-one-tweet/273451/

To anticipate 99 percent of incoming hostile mail and online trollery: the point of this distillation is not what it says about the two political parties. You can reverse them if you want -- although in the struggle over "the sequester," I think it's right as is. The real point is what this says about the predicament and habits of the press.