Politico’s Mea Culpa?
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Politico has an interesting article up today doing a post-mortem on the New Hampshire coverage that all but pronounced the Clinton campaign dead after Iowa. It gives three primary reasons why the coverage was so favorable to Obama and so negative to Clinton.
However, in the end the article seems to be more about excuses than changes. In the end the site kind of says “Oh, well” and moves on. It’s the non-apology apology that we are so used to hearing from the politicians that the site covers. “Mistakes were made” seems to be the headline, after everyone clearly knows that there were. I want to know what Politico plans to do to make sure that they don’t become part of the story and the echo chamber again. Acknowledging the problem is the first step, but where’s the rest of the steps?
I hope that this becomes a series rather than a one-off post. I hope more of the media takes a look at itself and sees what the problems are. It’s great to be first, but maybe it’s better to be correct.