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Washington, the city of monuments, has one architectural landmark that is not widely recognized: its press corps forms the nation's largest echo chamber...
Lately that chamber has echoed with predictions that Jimmy Carter will be a one-term President. Since the thesis cannot be tested for three years, this bit of prophetic journalism deserves a closer look. For months the capital press corps had been reporting Carter's growing problems but seemed unable to get through to a public that regarded Carter as a nice guy who was trying hard. So commentators began raising their voices. The trouble is that to those who dwell in Washington's echo chamber, the amplification ot their own and their colleagues' voices easily becomes...
Sure enough, that old fox John Connally, who'd like another chance at the White House, had earlier talked with Republicans in New Hampshire about a one-term Carter presidency. The A.P. dispatch may not have got much newspaper space, but it resonated through the capital echo chamber, which is always receptive to a new catch phrase...
David S. Broder, one of the capital's most esteemed reporters, recently got away-as far away as China. Re-entering the echo chamber, he chided his colleagues last week in the Washington Post: "The same people who talked last summer as if Jimmy Carter could walk on water now are just as convinced he is drowning. To the returned traveler it looks like a classic case of overreaction." Sure, there had since been Lance, the energy struggle and the Middle East But as for Carter's shortcomings, Broder added, "the criticisms being shouted now are no different...
...already the echo chamber reverberates with the new thesis: "Things are bad for Jimmy Carter, but not all that bad." Maybe they never were...