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To: WilliamofCarmichael

There are very few television journalists that were worth a speck of salt.

John Cameron Swayze was one who reported the news.

Another that comes to mind is Roger Mudd, especially when he interviewed Teddy Kennedy and asked him why he thought he should be president!

46 posted on 09/27/2004 7:08:25 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)

To: JesseHousman

Oh, to only have more Brit Humes! :-)

49 posted on 09/27/2004 7:19:21 AM PDT by Elijah27

To: JesseHousman

I remember John Cameron Swayze. ("Timex takes a licking and keeps on ticking")

Then came them: the ideologues.

Just a couple years later came Newton Minow's Vast Wasteland speech to the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.

Though not talking about TV news Mr. Minow did describe the sorry state of TV programming. The public was already being turned away from cognition and toward feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelings.

Minow stated something that the ideologues knew and the ideologues had already determined to capture it for their side in the nascent culture war.

"The power of instantaneous sight and sound is without precedent in mankind's history. This is an awesome power. It has limitless capabilities . . . ."

Today every home has the power of instantaneous sight and sound -- and the press!

We are more powerful than them.

55 posted on 09/27/2004 10:14:22 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)

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