ABC's 'Scandal' Portrays News Media As News Media Pretends To Be: Blind To Identity Politics
In the second season finale of ABC’s political drama “Scandal,” the president, having just been the victim of an attempted assassination, is in critical condition. Sally Langston, the V.P., becomes the nation’s first female president. (And she’s a complete wacko, privately referring to one Supreme Court justices as “gay-loving” and “baby-killing.”)
Hey, this sounds like something the real-life news media would dive right into, publishing stories round the clock.
Not so in Scandal, the episodes of which almost always feature some kind of angle relating to journalists.
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