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Facts?!? What the hell are facts doing on NPR and in a non-Krugman Times Blog? I'm a-skeert!
But there you are: ATC host Robert Siegel and NYT healthcare blogger Anne Underwood pretty thoroughly shoot down barefaced distortions pertaining to the costs of litigation, malpractice insurance, and defensive medicine told on Sunday Times op/ed page by former Senator Bill Bradley. It was a refreshing and unexpected piece of journalism to my shell-like ears, which are no longer accustomed to such spectacles as, uh, professional journalism being broadcast on NPR.
I'll have to dock Siegel and Underwood a few points for not directly calling Bradley a lying sack or reporting who is paying his wages and stipends these days. But gee whiz --- I'm actually slightly impressed!
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journalists? facts? this is surprising to you because it has been so rare for so long. But check out Rachel Maddow. She's not even trained as a journalist but she's just brilliant every night. If NBC replaced David Gregory on Meet the Press (he apparently has forgotten how to ask questions-- maybe he used to crib from Helen Thomas) with Rachel, it would make their booking so many wingnuts on that show an absolute delight to watch. She'd kill 'em.
ReplyDeleteBO: I don't doubt Maddow's capabilities, but NBC will keep her in a cable ghetto where she isn't seen by a mass audience. Even if they could make money off her on MTP, I doubt that GE would want her rocking the boat in such a prominent venue. They're perfectly happy with a cipher like David Gregory on the case because that's what they like in the boardroom. The NPR outburst of journalism, on the other hand, was totally unexpected, and probably heard by many more people than Maddow reaches.
ReplyDeleteOh, Stupor, I think NBC keeps Pat Buchanan in the cable ghetto to keep him quarantined from polite society but you're mistaken about Maddow. She is not only a new force in journalism-- she's a goldmine for NBC, if they get her out of the ghetto. Ironically, she's too smart and too witty for PBS or NPR. They'll continue to define what "average" means.
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