Though he may have a bit of a point: Via Kevin Drum, we were struck by a comment by Obama foreign policy guru Ben Rhodes.
A profile of Rhodes will appear in Sunday's New York Times magazine. In this excerpt, he discusses the relative youth of the modern press corps:
SAMUELS (5/8/16): It is hard for many to absorb the true magnitude of the change in the news business—40 percent of newspaper-industry professionals have lost their jobs over the past decade....“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” [Rhodes] said. “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”There's nothing wrong with being 27, of course; everyone is at some point. For similar reasons, there's nothing "wrong" with being inexperienced in some subject area.
That doesn't mean that harm isn't done when inexperienced youngish people are told to cover urban schools for prestige publications, or when such youngsters are assigned to cover foreign affairs. Or even presidential politics, which today consists in the reading of polls and the churn of speculation.
These assignments may be good for the bottom line. They're sometimes not so great for the journalistic product.
It's our impression that youth is served at print publications to hold down salary costs, but that youth is often served on TV for the purpose of telegenicity. There's nothing wrong with being telegenic, of course. But the hunt for telegenic youngish women seems especially obvious.
In fairness, puzzling journalism is still being done by people who are out of their twenties. Next week, we plan to review Tuesday's report in the New York Times about the link between family income and achievement in the public schools.
The piece was written by Motoko Rich. We regard her as one of the press corps' most puzzling reporters, despite the fact that she graduated from Yale in 1991—summa cum laude, no less!
On the other hand, we have the New York Times' youthful Nate Cohn, who apologized this week for his failed assessments of Candidate Trump's chances for the GOP nomination. Last week, Cohn was explaining away the fact that "The Upshot’s demographic-based models" had "systematically underestimated Mr. Trump’s performance" in the Acela primaries.
We're just saying.
Cohn seems to be roughly 27, the very age Obama's pal like to single out for scorn (Whitman College, 2010). In our view, Cohn's relative youth has sometimes tended to show. That said, because he works at the Times, there's no expectation of quality.
You don't have to be young to flub everything up. According to Rhodes, it helps.
The NY Times article is at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html?_r=1
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, it says Rhodes is "the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself." Yet. it points out that he has no background in foreign affairs:
"His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations — like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in international relations, rather than creative writing — is still startling."
Whatever this says about the reporters, the biggest shock is that the President's closest advisor on foreign affairs has no background in foreign affairs.
He is not the president's "closest advisor". He is shaping what the public hears about the president's efforts. He is NOT shaping what the president hears, knows, or does.
DeleteAnon -- please re-read how the Times described Rhodes:
Delete"the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself."
Of course this is so amazing and distressing as to be almost unbelievable. I can understand why you don't want to accept what the Times reported.
It's in the Times. But is it true?
DeleteIt's the "biggest shock" to a tiny little tribal mind like yours.
DeleteCaesar -- I didn't give the full quote. The Times article said:
Delete[Rhodes] is, according to the consensus of the two dozen current and former White House insiders I talked to, the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself. The president and Rhodes communicate “regularly, several times a day,” according to Denis McDonough, Obama’s chief of staff, who is known for captaining a tight ship. “I see it throughout the day in person,” he says, adding that he is sure that in addition to the two to three hours that Rhodes might spend with Obama daily, the two men communicate remotely throughout the day via email and phone calls.
A consensus among two dozen insiders provides a strong presumption that it's correct.
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DeleteWere there rally two dozen insiders? Was that their consensus? Did all two dozen know what they were talking about? Is the McDonough quote accurate? Does it mean Rhodes and Obama communicate about messaging, or Rhodes advises Obama about policy?
DeleteThe report doesn't say why they were communicating. Rhodes was not advising the president. The president was informing Rhodes of his position on issues that the press was inquiring about and helping him shape statements to the press. Rhodes is shaping the expression of policy by communicating the presidents policies to others. There is nothing that says Rhodes is offering advice and counsel, providing information or in any way helping the president formulate policy. He is merely on the phone with the president frequently -- that's what the article says. The article omits the directionality of the policy communications and thereby implies it is from Rhodes to the president and not the other direction.
DeleteAnon 6:51 wrote There is nothing that says Rhodes is offering advice and counsel, providing information or in any way helping the president formulate policy.
DeleteHowever, the Times explicitly said that a consensus of two dozen insiders was that Rhodes was "the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself."
As I wrote in a comment that Bob deleted, David your quote from the article is a joke. The article attributes every other quote and assertion in it directly to a particular person. The one time it does not is the one you picked David. Not only that it is an oddly worded sentence that is vague enough to be able to mean different things. It could be read as saying that Rhodes is shaping how people view Obama's foreign policy. But more importantly, it is unsourced and it is in stark contrast to all the other information in the article. The article over and over stresses how Rhode's role is to sell Obama's foreign policy and never, aside for the one unsourced quote David selects, asserts that Rhodes has any role in developing foreign policy. Bob you should be ashamed you let your ego control your actions.
DeleteYour comment was noted @ 10:55.
DeleteThe statement is absurd on the face of it.
DeleteYou telling me that Rhodes had more influence on foreign policy that Hillary Clinton or John Kerry? Or even Joe Biden? Or Obama's chief of staff, national security advisor, CIA director?
It's just the reporter trying to puff up the guy he was writing about, whom few people have heard of, and I am surprised that line got past an editor.
If one imagines one has learned that Ben Rhodes has been "the President's closest advisor on foreign affairs" then one is an ignoramus.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to one of Bob's themes (or is it a rule of thumb?) liberals don't care about education. Well, they certainly don't care when he writes about it.
"That doesn't mean that harm isn't done when inexperienced youngish people are told to cover urban schools for prestige publications."
ReplyDeleteAnd what harm is done when inexperienced and uneducated young people are assigned to teach in such schools?
That is something the Bob guild (Somerby and his imaginary analysts) have agreed never to discuss.
DeleteAre you referring to young whippersnappers with freshly minted Ivy League undergraduate degrees in such fields as philsophy who suddenly became dedicated to teaching with the draft board breathing down their necks?
Would these be the same whippersnappers who never took a single class in college to prepare them to teach, but instead were give a few weeks of "boot camp" before being turned loose in a classroom?
Would these be the same whippersnappers whose dedication to education was so great that they left after a few years for a career in show biz?
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1 تحديد اماكن التلوث
هناك العديد من الأسباب لظهور التلوث في المسابح، تحديد التلوث هو أول خطوة للقضاء عليه، عادة يتم تحديد السبب بناء على لون وشكل البقعة، والتي غالباً ما تكون مزيج من لونين معاً كالأخضر والنبي، الأحمر والأزرق، الأحمر الوردي، البني
2 تنقسم الملوثات الي قسمين رئيسيين
الاول : هو الملوث العضوىافضل شركة تنظيف مسابح بالرياض
وهو الذي ينشاء من فضلات الانسان والحيوانات داخل المسبح وايضا ورقات الشجر التى تتساقط داخل المسبح مما يجعله يحتوى علي الكثير من مسببات الأمراض ولكن طريقه تنظيف المسبح من الملوث العضوى اسهل بكثير
من الملوث المعدنى حيث ان عند اضافه الكلور فقط علي أماكن الملوث العضوى تبدا البقع بالاختفاء عكس الملوث المعدنى الذى لا يتاثر بالكلور
ثانيا : الملوث المعدنى
هو الشق الثانى من الملوثات وينشاء هذا النوع من المعادن القريبة من المسبح مثل صدأ الحديد وتفاعل المعادن الاخر مع الماء وهذا النوع صعب جدا في تنظيفه حيث يحتاج الي متخصص كي يتمكن من إزالتها كيميائيا .
3 كيف يُمكن علاج البقع العضويه
نقوم اولا بنزع المسبب للبقع من المسبح مثل انتزاع اوراق الشجر خارج المسبح از الطحالب الموجوده داخل المسبح التي سقطت في المياه وغرقت في القاع، لذلك إزالتها أهم جزء من العلاج، لو تم اكتشافها في البداية ستكون إزالتها سهلة، لكن لو تركتها مدة طويلة أو لم تقوم سريعا بتنظيفها فور حدوثها قد يتغير لون المسبح بالكامل،
بالتالي لن يكون سهل إزالتها. يجب مراقبه جميع الاشجار والزهور المجوده بجانب المسبح لتقوم بإزالة أي أوراق أو زخور تسقط فيه قبل أن تتحلل. اغسل حوض السباحة بمادة كيميائيه
ثم بعد هذه الخطوه يجب ان تتم الخطوه الاهم في اي عمليه تنظيف وهي تفريغ المسبح كاملا من الماء الموجود فيهً كليا لكى نتمكن من معالجة الحوائط والقاع كما نُريد،
خاصة لو كانت البقع قديمة واصبح ليس سهلا إزالتها، في هذه الحالة لابد من استخدام مادة حامضية للتخلص من البقع أو اي تغير لون المسبح في الحوض،
لو كان الجزء الداخلي منه مصنوع من الجبس فيجب إزالة طبقة رقيقة جداً من الجبس لاستعادة لونه الناصع مرة أخرى، بشكل عام لن تُضطر
لتكرار هذه العملية إلا كل اربع سنوات، لو كنت تُحافظ على نظافة مسبحك باستمرار. استخدم منظف إنزيمي المنظفات الإنزيمية تُساعد على التخلص من البقع العضوية بسهولة، يُمكنك استخدام منظفات تُجارية ذات قاعدة إنزيمية، أو حتى استخدم الخميرة لو لم تستطع الحصول على
منظف مخصص للمسابح، المنظفات الإنزيمية بشكل عام تُعتبر الأفضل في هذه الحالة لأنها ليست مواد كيميائيه قويه فتضر بالمسبح من حيث الحوائط والارض، إضافة إلى قدرتها على التخلص من
الدهون بالتالي تجعل إزالة البقع أسهل. أضف كمية كبيرة من الكلور كما ذكرنا سابقاً المواد العضوية يسهل التخلص من باستخدام الكلور كما ذكرنا انه الاقوى في تنظيف وتنقيه مياة المسابح
من اي ملوث عضوى ولا تنسي اعطاء التعليمات للزائرين بعدم استخدام الاساليب الغير اداميه من تبول في الماء وعدم الاستحمام قبل النزول الي المسبح فيجب علي كل زائر الاعتناء
بالنظافه الشخصيه له قبل النزول الي المسبح فهاذا من أهم طرق الحفاظ علي مياة المسبح لان جسم الانسان قد يكون حاملا لاي ميكروب فيجب الاعتناء بالنظافه قبل النزول
تمتلك شركتنا شركه زين لتنظيف المسابح بالرياض احدث وافضل الاساليب لتنظيف المسابح حيث نقوم بتفريغ المسبح من الماء كاملا ثم تنظيف البقع العضويه والمعدنيه باحدث الطرق واقوى المعدات
ثم التنظيف بالمواد الكيميائيه التى لا تؤثرا نهائيا علي جدران المسبح ولا الارضيه لذلك نحن نمتلك خبره واسعه في هذا المجال مما يجعل عملنا هو من يتحدث عنا
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