Posted on 01/11/2010 3:45:27 AM PST by militanttoby
As cynical as I have become about the news media, even I never thought I would see the day where "60 Minutes" provided far more comedy than "Saturday Night Live," but Sundays edition of the formerly respected news magazine gave the educated viewer infinitely more laughs than SNL delivered (although Charles Barkleys pathetic performance may have still somehow been even worse than that of Anderson Cooper).
Specifically I am referring to the segment that was allegedly devoted to the new book Game Change about the 2008 Presidential election. Quite simply, (partly because it dealt with subjects about which I have devoted much of the last two years of my life and fortune) this was the worst piece of journalism I have ever witnessed on 60 Minutes.
Here are just some of the many outrages in the story that forced those who care about the truth to choose between laughter and tears.
The segment on the book was just under thirteen minutes long. About eleven of those were spent discussing the losing sides Vice Presidential candidate. About seven minutes were used interviewing the strategist for the losing the campaign and allowing him to take unsubstantiated pot shots at the aforementioned VP candidate. Less than two minutes was used on the current Secretary of States bid to be the actual President. Virtually zero seconds were given to the campaign of the current President. Literally zero seconds were devoted to brand new and startling revelations in Game Change regarding scandals involving John and Elizabeth Edwards and Harry Reid.
(Excerpt) Read more at johnziegler.com ...
A lot of people are going to be mighty shocked when she’s the President.
Everything JZ stateds here is accurate; not one word about 0bama & co.
Complete smear.
What was Anderson Cooper doing on 60 Minutes, anyway ?
Maybe he's too busy right now helping the elite OP remake Schmitt Romney's image.
Of course they’d devote 11 minutes to Sara Palin. She’s a threat to the liberals, even if she never runs for anything again, because people listen to her, and she pulls no punches. Journalism? 60 Minutes? They never were real journalists. Real journalists don’t film the rehearsal of your answers to lists of questions, then only ask selected questions from that list and insist that you stick with your prior answers, even if they sound totally different in their new context. The people who refuse to talk to them are smart. Those that do talk to them have a death wish.
I was flipping through the channels that night and came upon the story, but when I saw Anderson Cooper as the interviewer I quickly realized it was a “hit job” and turned back to watching a rerun of “Two & A Half Men”.
Anderson Cooper has no place in Journalism and should probably look for work in a gossip rag.(Sorry to offend any gossip rags out there.) If CBS wants to tie that anchor around their necks, they are going to sink at a faster rate than ever. Have they gotten any of the stimulus money yet?
Speaks volumes that 60 Minutes farmed out the hit piece to Anderson Cooper. It’s the type of piece that’s right up his ...alley.
hee hee, you said it was “up his ...alley”...
LOL. Yeah, is that an incorrect term?
:)
60 Minutes?
Does that come on before, or after Lawrence Welk?
Is that held on with plastic clips, or suction cups?
But these days, being FIRST is more important than being RIGHT.
Reply to email: Mr Ridgerunner:
"I don't no watch you are talking about."
Looking for a new boyfriend.
Leopards no not change their spots. Snakes only change their skins.
You don't have to answer -- if you are professional writers, we ALL already know that the answer is NO, you have not. That's why publications have proofreaders and editors. I wrote a beautiful little feature once on cooking and every instance of the word "flour," wrote "flower." My editor was as perplexed as me ... it was just Freudian or something. He made fun of me for it -- he didn't write me off as a decent feature writer, journalist and reporter. NEITHER SHOULD YOU WRITE OFF JOHN ZIEGLER, especially if you're not familiar with his work.
Here's the deal: John Ziegler is one of the BEST, most THOROUGH, and HARD-HITTING good conservative radio guys (he had a great show on KFI for awhile) and journalists out there.
Maybe you guys could offer your services to him as proofreaders. But GOD HELP YOU when (not if, but when) one of those typos or goofs gets past you and into print.
Priorities, people.
Yes.
You are right. I should not have mentioned the misspellings.
Yeah, let's roll the tape on the interactions between him and Steve Schmidt.
Think we can see any evidence of "leg tingling" ?
I wonder if any of their interchanges were in "code ?"
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