Posted on 10/18/2005 10:22:18 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
Congratulations, David Westin. You've replaced serious, competent, respected Ted Koppel with the oily, obsequious Martin Bashir on "Nightline." My only question is, was Jerry Springer not available?
Perhaps Westin, the head of ABC News, has not seen the "outtakes" of Bashir's interviews with Michael Jackson from his original "documentary." But I've seen it and so have the many other journalists who were in the Santa Maria courtroom where Jackson was tried for child molestation last spring.
I have no doubt most of them had the same reaction as I when they heard today that Bashir had been given a co-hosting job at "Nightline." Yikes! was probably the first word that crossed their minds.
In the outtakes, as in the main doc, Bashir is, for lack of a better word, creepy. He baits Jackson, praising his strangest qualities during breaks in the filming. Jackson is flattered and pleased, but when filming resumes, Bashir then attacks the singer for the traits he only seconds earlier complimented....."
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LOL - Too much.
Relative to Bashir, that's fair.
I dont' see Bashir as any more disengenuous than Mike Wallace or any of the other fawning 'journalists' who will do anything to get an interview and then turn on the person in the editing room.
One advantage of Bashir is that he is apparently held in low esteem by even the MSM. Whatever he pulls should be less effective than Wallace and the others.
They're all Jayson Blairs to me.
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