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Just like schools during this season- no class.
1 posted on 08/18/2009 2:49:57 PM PDT by Pyro7480
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A ‘Very Dark Force in TV News’

Novak would have LOVED that...


2 posted on 08/18/2009 2:50:40 PM PDT by jessduntno (Privatization + Inter-State Sales + Individual Policies + Tort Reform = Healthcare Reform)
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Never heard of David Zurawik.
I suppose that’s why he wrote this article.


4 posted on 08/18/2009 2:53:37 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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Novak was a journalist, something Olbermann, Matthews, Stephenopoulos, and a host of other people can never be.


5 posted on 08/18/2009 2:54:26 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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Mr. Noname Reviewer will be bagging groceries within 5 years, at the rate his employer is bleeding readers and cash. The only thing he’ll then be known for, is how often he says “Paper or plastic?”.


7 posted on 08/18/2009 2:58:42 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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i have a lot to say about novak for very different reasons but for 24 hours.....give him RIP


8 posted on 08/18/2009 2:58:52 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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Appropriate he works in the Peoples Republic of Maryland!


9 posted on 08/18/2009 2:58:54 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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How dare he offer different opinions! That is so evil.


10 posted on 08/18/2009 3:03:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Pro-Freedom Fiction Writers Unite! - http://libertyfic.proboards.com)
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I never got that whole "Prince of Darkness" thing. Was Novak more "sneering" than Jack Germond? More ideological and polarizing than Eleanor Clift? More "belligerent" and ranting than Lawrence O'Donnell?

I don't think so. It's just that he was on the other side of the the Zulawiks of the world. So much of the time, when people slam someone else, it's not because of their target's personal qualities or actions, but simply because he's on the other side of the fence.

11 posted on 08/18/2009 3:04:43 PM PDT by x
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contemptible.


12 posted on 08/18/2009 3:11:23 PM PDT by rahbert
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Novak was conservative, a sin for which there is no forgiveness by leftists like this guy.


14 posted on 08/18/2009 3:12:13 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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When the Pig Kennedy finally croaks, some journalist will recall MaryJo, how he opened the border to illegals and how he conducted himself at the Paul Wellstone funeral. /s
15 posted on 08/18/2009 3:12:51 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Nationalization of thought must precede nationalization of industry - E.H. Carr)
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well that's one way for a no-class hack "TV CRITIC" that nobody ever heard of to get his name in the news...
16 posted on 08/18/2009 3:15:34 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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In other words, if we don’t bend over and agtee with you sorry liberal ass, we’re the devil. Shades of Herbert Marcuse.


17 posted on 08/18/2009 3:16:18 PM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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I didn't always agree with Novak, but...

"The fact is that Novak, as he would disclose in his autobiography, actually admired very few politicians. He wrote that he found the first politicians he covered less impressive than the athletic coaches he had covered as a young reporter — “an impression of the political class that did not change appreciably in a half-century of sustained contact.'"


18 posted on 08/18/2009 3:16:43 PM PDT by browardchad
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RIP my favorite curmudgeon!!!!! You will be missed


20 posted on 08/18/2009 3:21:27 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (Have you girded your loins today??????)
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Sad that it’s coming from Jack Germond’s former paper. I disagreed with both Novak and Germond on various issues, but at least they were actual journalists, unlike Mr. Zurawik.

I always roll my eyes, and I bet Novak and Germond did too at some point, when the topic of the news being reported is the news itself. “Flash - Newspaper runs column about TV cable news.” That’s fark, not news!


21 posted on 08/18/2009 3:24:54 PM PDT by ushr435
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"...he was indeed a very dark force in cable TV news contributing mightily to the toxic culture of confrontation, belligerence and polarization that so defines cable TV and American political discourse today."

This jackass is so stupid that he doesn't understand that, in penning this detestable smear, he himself is engaging in the same thing that he is accusing Robert Novak of. Oh, I forgot. It's acceptable journalism for a braindead leftist to smear people, especially their betters.

Robert Novak will be remembered and lauded as a terrific guy, a great journalist and a tough, hard-nosed reporter.

David Zurawik? Who?

22 posted on 08/18/2009 3:25:52 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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As my grandfather was fond of saying in an earthy tone,

Mr. Zurawik couldn’t make a patch on Novak’s ass.

I didn’t agree all the time with Mr. Novak but I respected him as a true journalist, Something this dipwad knows nothing about.

RIP, Bob.


23 posted on 08/18/2009 3:32:33 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Question Marxist Authority)
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Novak was one of the moving forces for changing political shows to debate format, rather than a parade of liberals being nodded at by Charlie Rose types.


25 posted on 08/18/2009 3:51:36 PM PDT by qwertypie
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The Baltimore Sun a communist propaganda rag goes after the Prince of Darkness ,,,,, no contest . Rest in Peace Bob I’ll miss you . No ones really gonna miss the Balt. Sun when it’s gone .


26 posted on 08/18/2009 4:03:36 PM PDT by lionheart 247365 (-: Who needs scare tactics at a HORROR SHOW ??? :-)
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