The man is simply not intelligent enough to think critically about anything. Where's the analysis? It's as if he published his preliminary notes.

A starting point for him, if he were to begin to inch his grade up toward an inflated Harvard B-, would be to ask: what relationship exists between the issues the media prioritizes and the importance of the reality they are reporting on? (Even the C writer recognizes that US polls have nothing to do with internecine conflict in Iraq.) Someday Kurtz might be able to begin thinking about the question, What relationship SHOULD exist between those two things?

There's a special kind of intellectual deformity in believing that value is added to society by gathering together quotes from media figures and finding a verb ('weigh on') that doesn't overcommit to any meaning. And then he puts it all in a book!

Mistah Kurtz, he stupid.

Such stupidity in a mid-career writer can only come from laziness.

SE
 

It's bad?
 

The sentence is a bit cumbersome, but I don't quite see what is supposed to be so bad about it. At first I read "after" as a preposition, rather than as the conjunction it obviously is. Is that what you did, Richard?

Commiserations (not really) on the Yankees. Bring on the Indians!
 

What struck me as odd and offensive about that sentence was the idea, stated without self-consciousness, much less embarrassment, that public opinion should have any impact on how television news anchors covered the war.