There's at least 3 of us, though it's not every week for me.
I have come closer to throwing something at my TV when Gabler talks..than most of the dems!!
Oh, yeah. Big time!
I haven't noticed that ANY of the panelists on that show are very conservative...and most seem to take delight in bashing Bush now and then..
I ascribe the Bush bashing as simply a function of the echo chamber effect of those within the beltway or in the media, regardless of their politics. You hear something often enough you begin to internalize it, even if it goes against what you know to be true, simply because you're tired of fighting against the tide.
But the main thing about the structure of this show and of Howie Kurtz' show on CNN is that it's basically journalists defending their own, not honestly taking a critical look at the output of their profession. They certainly don't apply the same critical review the way that they would anyone else. They generally hear the buzz coming from folks like us and then set about defending their friends without giving any contrary voices a chance to respond.
I've sent Roger Ailes and the folks that run the Fox show several messages suggesting a format change. I think they should expand to an hour, with the same panel of journalists, but set them up formally as the defense of their peers. Then give the first 15 minutes to someone like Brent Bozell to pick the topics and show the clips, plus provide his take on it. Let the "professionals" try to defend the premise he sets up for the next 15 minutes (with opportunity for rebuttal). Then give 15 minutes to somebody like David Brock to lay out the left's take on the weeks news and repeat the process. You'd need to alternate the sequence of who goes first to make it fair, and you might rotate the conservative and lefty outside groups given the podium, but it would be a much more interesting show.
I like that format idea. Could you have a future in cable news programming?
That is a great idea...because they sure do have a CYA attitude when the Media is the story...like at New Orleans last year...
Have you, or anyone here...ever watched the new Connie Chung and husband show on MSNBC???
Does anyone even know when it is on??
Add me to the weekly newswatch list, but I have to tell you I have come to dispise Neal Gabler over the past couple of months, he has become more and more dispicable.