On your marks, get set, Go!

Joe Klein's most recent article in the Time magazine, named "How Hillary Learned to Trust Herself," deserves props. I am glad he is apologizing on the media's behalf for their savage media coverage of Hillary Clinton.

He is right, the media has exaggerated on her emotional states and exploited her to heighten reader sensationalism: "But we in the press have to be smarter too. We were wildly stupid in the days before the New Hampshire primary, citing Clinton meltdown after Clinton meltdown — the tears, the flash of anger in the debate — that never really happened. We really need to calm down, become more spin-resistant, even if our sleep-deprived sources tend to overreact to every slip and poll dip in the campaign. If we are lucky, this will be a long and complicated race — which is exactly what this country deserves right now — and we need to watch it with our very best, most patient eyes, just as the public seems to be doing."

Thank you Mr. Klein for that excellent article, even if you don't completely support her, but still recognize what the savagely wrong nature of media coverage of the elections.

Another article in the same January 21, 2008 edition of Time I read even took this further to state that the media, "fourth branch," was the loser of the elections and the common people were the winners because the voters ignored the "pompous punditry" of the media who claimed Hillary was finished and voted on their own beliefs.

Yes America. It's time for us to get our own opinions. The media should be giving us news. It's called news for a reason. While I love good analysis, I don't want to know a future that only materializes because of a self-fulfilling nature crated by apathetic and ignorant population who takes what the media says as the golden truth.

Thank you America. It's time for a real race.