This Is Your Brain ... On Digby By: Mark W Adams

The Amazing Digby once again sears wisdom into your brain.

Today, he analyzes the dynamics of a small town, provincial in it's attitudes and protective of thier community; and how these attitudes are reflected in it's hometown newspapers and media outlets.

The "Town" is Washington DC, and the local papers are the Washington Post and New York Times -- their little TV outlets broadcast into the living rooms of every US citizen and beyond -- and they couldn't be more out of touch.

Here you had the most powerful people in the world identifying themselves with Bedford Falls from "It's A Wonderful Life" when the court of Versailles or Augustan Rome would be far more more apt. The lack of self-awareness is breathtaking.

As they say on the InterToobz, go Read It All.