The Shallow Well of California Political Coverage And Its Implications

So there's a California Field Poll survey out about the budget crisis, which shows that either people are resigned to new taxes or that people can't live with them, depending on the spin of the article you read.

The real question is, where do these people get these political opinions? There's scant coverage of the perpetual budget problem and its root causes, there's virtually no coverage of how the Governor's borrow-and-spend policies have led us down this path. That's why he's so popular (60% approval in the poll), since the only time you get any news on him is from national magazine covers. But my fear is that the citizenry is very ill-informed and easily swayed, and will have no problem believing the Governor's fantasy spin that we can balance the budget and give everyone a "fandastick" job without raising taxes.

The hollowing out of California's political media is very dangerous.