[Luis Gonzalez]

FYI

[JohnHuang2]

Gracias, mi hermano.

[Miss Marple]

Thanks, Luis. I have often seen that passage from Mike Wallace quoted, but I never knew exactly how it happened.

Breathes there a man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
"This is my own, my native land?"

[Captainpaintball]

I'm offended that you didn't notify me of this article!:) I am glad I stumbled upon it, though. This is going straight to my archives! Once again, Newt hit the nail on the head with his analysis! Do you think Jennings and Wallace remembered that (well deserved) slap in the face?

MEGA BUMPS!!!

BOOKMARKED!

Journalists are scum!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yet the fact that no one takes the shows seriously is precisely what's wrong with them, because they jeopardize the credibility of everything that journalists do. "I think one of the really destructive developments in Washington in the last fifteen years has been the rise in these reporter talk shows,"Tom Brokaw has said. "Reporters used to cover policy--not spend all of their time yelling at each other and making philistine judgments about what happened the week before. It's not enlightening. It makes me cringe."

When talk shows go on the road for performances in which hostility and disagreement are staged for entertainment value; when reporters pick up thousands of dollars appearing before interest groups and sharing tidbits of what they have heard; when all the participants then dash off for the next plane, caring about none of it except the money--when these things happen, they send a message. The message is: We don't respect what we're doing. Why should anyone else?

Worth repeating. Thanks, Luis.