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http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/1/reporting-governmentshutdowndemocracy.html Shutdown coverage fails Americans by Dan Froomkin @froomkin October 1, 2013 3:45PM ET Commentary: We need journalists to hold politicians accountable for extremist actions, not to enable them Topics: U.S. Shutdown Media A man reads morning newspapers from around the U.S. at the Newseum in Washington, Oct. 1, 2013. Gary Cameron/Reuters U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of both political parties to come to terms. It is supposedly the result of a "bitterly divided" Congress that "failed to reach agreement" ( Washington Post ) or "a bitter budget standoff" left unresolved by "rapid-fire back and forth legislative maneuvers" ( New York Times ). This sort of false equivalence is not just a failure of journalism. It ...