Shutdown: Media Should Play The Blame Game

Where The Media's Shutdown Coverage Is Going Wrong
House Majority Leader Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) speaks next to a poster of Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) during an event on the government shutdown on Capitol Hill October 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. The US government is in a forced shutdown after lawmakers failed to pass a spending bill. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)
House Majority Leader Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA) speaks next to a poster of Senate Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) during an event on the government shutdown on Capitol Hill October 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. The US government is in a forced shutdown after lawmakers failed to pass a spending bill. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Media like to dismiss the partisan "blame game," but in cases like this placing blame is something that journalism ought to do. Because there's nothing that promotes political irresponsibility more than the knowledge that whatever you do, the media will blame both sides equally.

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