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In each case, Germond's observations are astute and fascinating, but ultimately discouraging for what they reveal about the journalists men who hold or seek power, as well as how they are portrayed to the voters. Culminating in the farcical non-election results of 2000, and the atrocious reporting of the outcome, Germond reaches his journalists inevitable conclusion that he no longer expects the system to ever "get it right" and produce real executive leadership or accurate press accounts of current events. Now semi-retired in journalists West Virginia, he makes it depressingly clear that the failure of broadcast and print news to adequately explain what was at stake for the direction of the country (both during and after the 2000 presidential race) represented a new low in American journalism and politics. Maybe worst of all, Germond notes, too many modern journalists apparently never even tried to pierce the market-tested, micromanaged images that the Bush and Gore campaigns spoon-fed them.
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