Daily Archives: March 17, 2011


How David Broder Lost His Way

The headline on Robert Parry’s article is How the US Press Corps Lost Its Way.

Given the media’s eulogies for David Broder, I think it appropriate to emphasize what Parry had to say about him.  That is why I used the headline, How David Broder Lost His Way.

My editing of the subtitle of the article is “The eulogies for Washington Post columnist David Broder: an unintended commentary on what went wrong with the U.S. news media.”

The beginning of Parry’s indictment of Broder is:

Broder personified the cult of centrism, a faith in “The System” that ignored how hollowed out its institutions had become, at least in terms of any moral or democratic values.

For many years, I have been unable to stand listening to or reading columns of David Broder.  Robert Parry’s article is a good explanation of why I have felt this way.