I was curious if Wilentz believed that political correspondents deserved to be fitted with dunce caps of their own by now. He's an avid supporter of Clinton, whose staff has blasted much of the coverage. So, I took a New Jersey Transit train down to Princeton to interview him.
I was pleased to learn that Wilentz thought the media deserved some credit. ...He told me that journalists were capable of surprising him by doing solid -- as opposed to sensational -- work. In turn, Wilentz surprised me when he reviewed the media's coverage of the Pennsylvania primary, which Clinton won.
He said the best coverage by far came from the Fox News Channel....
"What it showed is that the reporting of politics doesn't have to be bad," Wilentz said. "If you respect your audience without a partisan imperative, then you can have some sophisticated reporting."
"Without a partisan imperative"?
Persumably, that Wilentz has clearly lost his mind is what makes him so attractive to Taylor Marsh, Lambert, Corrente et al.
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