There was a great article in Time recently about how journalists could take some advice from The View, called "The View. The Proud."
I know. Weird.
Sidenote: the print version has a great graphic of women from the show with boxing gloves.
Writer Poniewozik makes a good point: "when Joy Behar questioned John McCain on a Sept. 12 episode about campaign ads of his that she believed were lying, she used the word lie. Serious news organizations do not do this! They say "misleading." They say "pushing the envelope." If they're feeling especially feisty, they might note, "Some say this is a lie." But they do not call what they believe to be a lie, a lie."
And as sad as it is, it's true. The Daily Show is so popular for this same reason. When something is ridiculous, Jon Stewart names it so. When something is ridiculous and the mainstream media "covers" it, people tend to tell the news and analyze (or over-analyze, or avoid) the topic to death. This is typically picked over the obvious choice of calling the public's attention to a mistake and calling it a mistake.
The even sadder truth, "The View's hosts (including executive producer Barbara Walters) get away with this because they do what the more fettered media believe they can't: address issues people actually care about--as opposed to those the respectable media care about--and say what they actually think."
Why can't the rest of the media do this? Clearly people (or bosses and networks) are too scared to be wrong or offensive, fearing retribution or advertiser loss. But isn't that a slap in the face that the one to call anyone out is someone from The View?
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