"Why the Press can't report the campaign"

A very, very good post from Ezra Klein.

There's one thing I want to add to this: First, none of this, per se, is the media's fault. As Joan Didion wrote in "Insider Baseball" two decades ago, the fundamental audience for any campaign event is now television cameras. Reporters didn't ask for this to happen, but political strategists realized it was the best way to operate, so they started doing it.

So how do we fix this problem? I don't know. I think one way would be for news organizations to simply not cover the campaign as much, but that's unlikely to happen due to competitive pressures.