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Jan 11
publicado por Nuno Gouveia, às 17:30link do post | comentar

Excelente artigo de Josh Kraushaar, do National Journal, sobre a reacção dos políticos e dos media ao massacre de Tucson. Um os melhores que já li até ao momento. Só agora o li, mas o cronista desenvolve algumas coisas que escrevi no post anterior. E de facto só posso concordar com ele: os políticos reagiram muito bem a esta tragédia e os media não. Que sirva de lição para o futuro.

 

Algumas passagens do artigo:

 

Ironically, even as politicians have been scrutinized for overheated rhetoric, it's the political class that reflected the country's mood best in the aftermath of this weekend's senseless shootings. From President Obama's pitch-perfect speech to the nation, to House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi working together to reassure members and staff, there was little hint of the blame game that fueled much of the media's coverage.

 

It’s becoming increasingly clear that overheated political vitriol played virtually no role in Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting spree. His political thinking is hardly coherent, and his obsession with Giffords predated the tea party and Sarah Palin’s emergence in national politics. One of his few close friends told Mother Jones that he became fixated on the congresswoman when he asked her a question at a 2007 town hall about "the government having no meaning" and felt she didn’t answer. His killing spree wasn’t motivated by disagreement with her positions on health care or immigration.

 

Violent metaphors are all over our culture, in politics and outside of it, and that won’t be changing anytime soon. The political lexicon is awash in gun metaphors -- from campaign committee lists of top “targets” to political “showdowns” to “battleground districts” to challengers “playing defense,” just to name a few. If this were a crime, the political media would be as guilty as anyone.



sim falta muito, mais de um ano, mas se começa a distanciar, cuidado, mitt romney pode surpreender...
esperava mais de Obama, mitt tem capacidade para ganhar...
André a 12 de Janeiro de 2011 às 16:36

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