Why our media is lame

Paul Krugman runs down the reasons why media coverage of health care reform is lame. Basically, the reasons can be extended indefinitely to the coverage of any significant policy issue.

We've taken a shot at explaining this here. In the end, the idea is that many journalists are either too dumb or too cowardly to handle these issues. But, we shouldn't forget either that sometimes journalism is an unreasonably dangerous enterprise, and that our culture of violence (e.g. sending death threats to journalists who write intelligently about health care) plays a significant but often invisible role as well.