age-old device in politics, making a personal slam sound more high-minded by attributing it to someone else. |
Boy, this impeachment thing really is getting him. |
Bush used a version of the same technique: 'I heard somebody say, well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree with my position. I totally reject that thought.' Somebody? So-and-so? Who could he be referring to? |
But I don't know how much sympathy there is out there for newspapers when there are companies laying off 10,000 people a pop. |
But if this is the tip of the iceberg, in other words, if there are more moments in debates or other interviews, where he seems not to have a grasp, sure, that could be a major problem, ... But that will depend on whether this sort of thing ... resonates with voters. It may not, this may be a media flap, it may be a one-day story. |
But journalists rarely venture into impoverished neighborhoods these days, except for quick-hit features, |
Even by the standards of modern media excess, there has never been anything quite like the way the press is embracing, extolling and flat-out promoting this retired general who has never sought public office. |
How much time do you have? |
I can't say I was shocked, |
I think the chances of (ABC) succeeding are pretty decent. |
It would be an absolute coup for ABC to steal Letterman, ... Reliable Sources. |
It's a brave new world. |
It's kind of like letting people inside the newsroom. They can see the raw process. They can see the judgments that different networks make -- some being cautious, some being not so cautious, and they can make up their own minds about who's right, who's wrong and what remains to be seen. |
It's pretty clear that Dan Rather faced a very unpalatable choice. ... His contract had at least two more years to run. [Should he] step down now before the outside investigative report, commissioned by CBS News expected in the next few weeks about his botching -- and the network's botching -- of that story about President Bush's National Guard service? Rather [decided] today that it would be better for him to step down on his own terms. |
Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being. |