Among the many depressing facets of our society these days is the dismal state of the press, especially when it comes to political reporting. It is mind-boggling to me that although it is basically a three-way race on the Democratic presidential race, the press all but ignores John Edwards. On the Republican side, though Ron Paul consistently outpolls Giuliani, he’s the one who is left out of the Michigan debate. As has been noted many times, the press acts like they’re still in high school, and if you’re not one of the cool kids, you simply don’t exist. Apparently Hillary Clinton only exists because they hate her so much.

Eric Boehlert at Media Matters has done an excellent job of dissecting this whole phenomenon in a piece titled “New Hampshire, the press, and incompetence.” Jon Stewart’s done some good stuff as well (thank god The Daily Show is at least partially back!). If I was on top of my game I would have all kinds of links here, but it’s late and I just wanted to point to the Boehlert article. It’s right on the money.