tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post1188300679217867242..comments2024-03-16T05:19:07.061-04:00Comments on Retirement Blues: A Comedian Succeeds When Government FailsJazzbumpahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-26403676382636201152010-12-27T21:28:00.267-05:002010-12-27T21:28:00.267-05:00Williams is a text reader, not a reporter.
Still ...Williams is a text reader, not a reporter.<br /><br />Still - I want to believe that he said that in a wistful, perhaps even envious way.<br /><br />But it all boils down to what <a href="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/12/why-oh-why-cant-we-have-a-better-press-corps-new-york-times-abuses-history-edition.html" rel="nofollow">Delong so often says</a> . . .<br /><br />Alas,<br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290163255778893789.post-1397185660651460392010-12-27T14:49:37.135-05:002010-12-27T14:49:37.135-05:00The state of independent news journalism today, ha...The state of independent news journalism today, has been co-opted by the "media industrial complex." One need only look at the quote from NBC's Brian Williams in the story you linked: “Jon gets to decide the rules governing his own activism and the causes he supports,” Mr. Williams said, “and how often he does it — and his audience gets to decide if they like the serious Jon as much as they do the satirical Jon.” <br /><br />Mr. Williams is old enough to know better, and if he is a student of his profession would know that there was a time when leading media journalists did editorialize at the end of an evening news broadcast. Cronkite did it. John Chancellor did it, and a host of others did it in a bygone era when the owners of the networks still had a sense of what journalism is. These new age journalistic hacks are only interested in the big pay day, and have no interest in speaking truth to power.nanutenoreply@blogger.com