Subject: Share the View -- Dumbing Politics Down
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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:44:21 +0000

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A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for June 21, 2012
MICHAEL KINSLEY: What should we think about government leaks? Either
reporters are right to expose secret government goings-on, or they’re
wrong to supply information to enemies. “There is no ‘invisible hand’
to guarantee that if the government tries to keep its secrets and
reporters try to pry them away, the result will be the ideal balance
between the people's right to know and the government's need for them
not to know.” [Link]
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    2. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-20/love-the-leaker-hate-the-leak.html

EZRA KLEIN: Coverage of political “gaffes” distracts the press and
public from learning anything useful from political news conferences.
When journalists dumb down the message, we "reduce the amount of useful
information politicians offer to the public, making our jobs harder in
the long term.” [Link]
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    3. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-20/blame-press-not-candidates-for-q-a-s-to-nowhere.html

CAROLINE BAUM: “Now that the Greek election failed to solve anything,
Europe is back to the same problems it faced before. . . . Seventeen
different countries with 17 sovereign governments, 17 unique cultures
and at least 17 languages are ill-suited for a monetary union."
[Link]
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    4. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-20/what-s-so-special-about-the-euro-currency-area-.html

CARL POPE: “If Asia and Africa embrace bottom-up renewable strategies,
they can restrain energy costs, while leapfrogging dirty energy into
the emerging post-fossil global economy.” [Link]
  Links:
    5. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-20/cheap-coal-is-dead-long-live-renewables-part-2-.html

THE EDITORS: The Fed today stepped in to provide more monetary stimulus
“largely because Congress won't. . . . Lawmakers should do their part
by agreeing to a compromise budget that allows for immediate economic
growth and a more sustainable future.” [Link] And, THE EDITORS
write, Attorney General Eric Holder should turn over the Justice
Department documents on Operation Fast and Furious. “The only way to
salvage something positive from this fiasco is to investigate what went
wrong and learn from the mistakes.” [Link]
  Links:
    6. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-20/if-congress-worked-it-wouldn-t-be-dependent-on-bernanke.html
    7. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-20/holder-should-turn-over-fast-and-furious-memos.html

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