New York Magazine, Obama, and Clinton

Kurt Andersen checks in with an interesting look at "the media"'s take (Andersen's quotes, not mine) on Barack Obama and how that maps with the split between Obama supporters and those who support Hillary Clinton:

" The world depicted in 'the media,' broadly construed -— not just straight journalism but everything we watch and read and hear —- is overwhelmingly a bright, shiny, upscale, youngish world. Uneducated white people, residents of the so-called C and D counties, and the elderly -— in other words, Hillary Clinton voters -— are seldom allowed into the mass-media foreground, and when they appear it’s usually as bathetic figures, victims or losers. (And working-class black pop culture is considered part of the sexy mainstream in a way that working-class white pop culture is not.) The shocking eclipse of Hillary...by this fashionable (black!) media darling is one more slap in the face for the people chronically excluded from the pretty mediascape version of America, one more damn new new thing that they don’t really get"

It's a really good read, and it's especially timely when read alongside the Daily intel column on the same site, which rounds up a passel of articles from "the media" that exhibit a certain glee at what they think should be the end of the Clinton campaign.