January 19, 2012 | Posted At: 09:03 AM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Obama Administration , On Maryland Avenue
Quotes: Brill (Over)Praises Duncan
He's universally regarded as the single best performer in the president's cabinet.
-- "Education activist" Steve Brill (via @gothamschools). GQ's own list names Clinton #5.
Hmm, this evokes media criticism by Jay Rosen and Daniel Hallin:
"The sphere of consensus is the ‘motherhood and apple pie’ of politics, the things on which everyone is thought to agree. Propositions that are seen as uncontroversial to the point of boring, true to the point of self-evident, or so widely-held that they’re almost universal lie within this sphere. ... ‘journalists do not feel compelled either to present opposing views or to remain disinterested observers.’ (Which means that anyone whose basic views lie outside the sphere of consensus will experience the press not just as biased but savagely so.)"
Posted by: CarolineSF | January 19, 2012 at 16:29 PM