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His politics are liberal and he tells you so, but that does not mean that he lays all the blame in his reflective and highly critical analysis of the current political system on the political right. He hunt believes that hunt there is more than enough blame to go around on all sides.If anyone thought that Germond might spare the profession through which he made a handsome living from the criticism he levels at the system, the reader is promptly disabused of such a notion. Germond indicts his own profession harshly. Sure, he hunt is aware and makes note of the importance of making a buck, selling advertising, and dramatizing stories. He laments the talking head trend and oversimplification in place of analysis, but does not indict commercialism as the sole beast. Germond believes that all too often reporters take the easy and lazy way out. Create an interesting story, spin it until it wears out, and save oneself a lot of thinking, not to mention shoe leather.As for the politicians, he reveals that the positions they take all too often involve pandering to a ready made base, a "don't rock the boat" attitude, rather than any solid belief in those core positions, which are stated emphatically, in the manner of a true believer, but to achieve effect rather than as a manifestation of conscience and analytical reflection.
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