Jay Cost takes on those endless, tiresome Democratic debates:
This is a narrow view of politics: the press collects seven people on a stage, knowing that one of them will be the next Democratic nominee and could very well be the next President of the United States, and really has no interest except in whether they slap each other around a little bit. This is a solipsistic view of politics: journalists 'know' that Americans generally find the gamesmanship of politics to be loathsome and annoying. But their analysis is predicated upon the assumption that Americans like it as much as the journalists do - and so therefore are paying as much attention. This is a false view of politics: this way of analyzing the electorate has no empirical basis in reality - which journalists would quickly discover if they read more widely than their fellow journalists.
Makes you wonder who's worse: a journalist or a politician? Wait - don't answer that!