James Fallows has really taken the MSM to task for their inept coverage and analysis of Obama's Asian trip. Here's just one from Fallows to give you a sense:
When does an official part of the chattering class -- one of the weekend talkers, someone from the leading newspapers -- look back on these past two weeks in journalism's effort to represent reality and ask how the dominant narrative could have been so wrong, and wrong in a way that was easily noticeable at the time? Just curious. The guiding motto for the inquiry should be the deathless subhead on Tish Durkin's article: "Even through a veil of censorship and propaganda, the Chinese people managed a clearer view of Obama's visit than the US media did."
Andrew Sullivan provides a nice summary of what Fallows has been writing:
You won't find the results or analysis in the MSM which is why we have Jim Fallows at the Atlantic. If you did not read his brilliant dismemberment of lazy MSM reporting during the Asian tour, you can reprise the best here, here, here, here, here and here. If you haven't come away from this series of posts without a deeper and much better understanding of what Obma moved forward on this trip, then by all means return to watching cable news. But let's just look at the more recent headlines:
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