Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Senator John Edwards, unknowingly endorsed MediaHerd’s content yesterday.  Ms. Edwards brilliantly, and with far less sarcasm, underscored some of the important issues raised here about the media herd’s tendancy to report storylines populated with interesting characters at the expense of substantive reporting on topics important to American voters during this pivotal election year.  Ms. Edwards writes:

Watching the campaign unfold, I saw how the press gravitated toward a narrative template for the campaign, searching out characters as if for a novel: on one side, a self-described 9/11 hero with a colorful personal life, a former senator who had played a president in the movies, a genuine war hero with a stunning wife and an intriguing temperament, and a handsome governor with a beautiful family and a high school sweetheart as his bride. And on the other side, a senator who had been first lady, a young African-American senator with an Ivy League diploma, a Hispanic governor with a self-deprecating sense of humor and even a former senator from the South standing loyally beside his ill wife. Issues that could make a difference in the lives of Americans didn’t fit into the narrative template and, therefore, took a back seat to these superficialities.

Bottom Line: Ms. Edwards, we who are about to be uninformed by the media herd salute you!  Perhaps continued prodding will cause media outlets to pause before elevating the trivial.