People who don't watch the news shouldn't complain about it

When we or the Bush Administration talk about the "reality-based community," this is what we're talking about. I follow the news because I have a stake in what my nation does and in what happens in my world. And for whatever reason, Democrats and Independents tend to share that desire for accurate knowledge. In contrast, the Republican base is solving the disconnect between empirical evidence and their hopes and expectations by closing their eyes. Catching up on reading fiction (insert Ann Coulter comment here). Maybe doing some more gardening. Anything to avoid confronting the mess that their favorite guy has made of this world since they re-elected him.
This is why I get peeved about the strain of right-wing criticism that claims that the media is responsible for what's wrong in Iraq. Conservatives have preferred to wrap themselves in the happy-happy world of their own spin, and what journalists do is not harm the occupation, but force them to re-evaluate the status of it. People who aren't paying attention to the news from Iraq do not get to complain about how that news is covered.
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