Here's a very nice, in-depth article from Dan Froomkin on the great uncovered story of the 2012 election cycle: the complete disconnect from truth by the GOP. In it, he quotes extensively from Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, who published a book earlier this year (It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism) that delved extensively into this issue. As a result, these two centrist Beltway insiders have been completely shunned by the establishment media, whose mindless and gutless aversion to doing anything beyond "both sides do it" prevents them from giving air time/column inches to anyone who actually describes what's going on with the Republican party's anti-truth jihad.
Balloon Juice has a much-used tag, "Our Failed Media Experiment," and if ever there was a perfect example this is it.
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