Media Commentary – Good and Bad

First the good. A very simple statement from the NY Times. You may not like the liberal paper, but I thought these words from the editorial page were excellent:

This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing to reflect on the basic facts:

An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power and wealth, has been elected the 44th president of the United States.

Hugely powerful.

Then this from MSNBC.com:

Most notably, Obama managed to defeat John McCain without generating a significantly higher percentage of black voters than John Kerry turned out four years ago, according to exit polls. Nationally, black voter turnout was 13 percent, a modest jump from 11 percent in 2004

Most notably? Hello. Do you have any idea what a 2 percent jump means over the whole country? That would be Ohio and Florida. Which would be the entire election.

Lame analysis…

This is why critical reading skills are so important.