In news reporting, we no longer have a Federal Government or Departments of the Federal Government or a Presidency. We only have TheObamaAdministration and PresidentObama. While the phraseology is accurate enough, it contributes to a mind set that ultimately limits all discussion about national policy to the singular area of political combat. Flu shots come from TheObamaAdministration.
This isn’t all that new, but it isn’t much older than cable news. Before that time it was quite common to hear a news report say ‘the President’, or ‘today the federal government’ or “today the administration” or ‘the Treasury Department today . . . “.
Say it the other way long enough and the substance is drained from the issue – and it’s replaced by a definition of which political direction the action issues from.
You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.
