The American political press has quite the appetite for jumping all over the obscure and trivial in its 2008 election reporting.
It has, to date, delivered endless chatter about haircuts, middle names and state drivers' licences.
Unfortunately, to this list, we must now add Hillary Clinton's restaurant tipping habits.
Does she or doesn't she?
Only her waitress knows for sure.
The press highlights these diversions, continuously, at the expense of much-needed focus on the critical issues confronting the nation as it approaches 2008.
America's pundits, however, will continue to frame the 2008 election along those lines -and they will do so with a tenor of urgency and gravitas that implies, contrary to all logic, that these topics are somehow determinative and essential.
That is clear.
As I have said before, as America's political and financial standing in the world erodes, this type of press coverage is a big part of the nation's problem.
Our question is whether the American electorate will be more able to sift through the noise than it was in 2000 and 2004?
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
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