Okay, I get it. We let all Republicans and most Democrats off the hook because they will roll over for the companies that own the media and in McCain's case literally get blown by lobbyists, but come on! Are we not even remotely pretending anymore?

Cezanne was a bewildered man who attempted to paint a bewildering world… eliminating everything he didn’t understand, reducing all that was visually vagrant to its small, hard essence.

APOLOGIES....The Wall Street Journal reports on increased scrutiny of the news media:In this campaign cycle, television news organizations have issued at least 10 apologies in total over on-air expressions. On Tuesday, a Fox News anchor, E.D. Hill, said s

“It is possible,” writes the New York Times ’ Guy Trebay in yesterday’s Sunday Styles , “at a time when campaign images are scrutinized by media sibyls as ardently as the entrails of birds were read by the ancients, to read too much into Michell

By Am Johal New York, N.Y. July 2, 2008 Omid Memarian is the World Peace Fellow at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.