I'm one who thinks that it's perfectly fine to have a vegetables and dessert approach to news. Provide some tasty sweets along with the broccoli, and people can enjoy informing themselves. The problem is, as Boehlert says, for so many in the press corps the fluff is what's important. More than that, the news consuming public also starts to think that the fluff is what's important and that being an informed citizen is about knowing what was in MoDo's latest column.
I don't have a problem with reporting on presidential puppies and other similar things, I just have a problem with an elite press that is more interested in presidential puppies than policy.
