Before a final farewell to Sarah, a comment about mainstream media hypocrisy, dishonesty and pretentiousness
MAINSTREAM MEDIA: SMUG, SMUGGER AND SMUGGEST while the real stories unfold outside their cloistered havens
Theres a guy named Howie Kurtz who spent a long time at the Washington Post sucking up to people in power.
That eventually got him on TV.
Howie subsequently left the Washington Post and went to the online site, Daily Beast.
But he kept his CNN Sunday morning gig.
On Sunday, Sept. 18, Howie hosted a panel of people who had not read THE ROGUE, but who felt entitled to comment on it anyway.
Most egregious was Steven Roberts, (husband of MSM/NPR doyenne Cokie Roberts,) who used to work for the New York Times, but who now finds himself teaching journalism and media ethics at George Washington University. For which fate I pity him.
Roberts felt entitled to say, I would give Joe McGinniss a failing grade for ethics in my class from that book I think the McGinniss book is a heap of trash from everything Ive read about it.
Question: Steve, what grade would you give yourself for commenting onindeed trashinga book you hadnt read? Do you let your students at GWU turn in critiques of works they havent read? Do you grade their papers without reading them?
Michelle Cottle of Newsweek had the good grace and common sense not to denounce a book she hadnt read yet. Nor to denounce its author. Thank you, Michelle. You behaved as a professional journalist should.
The third panelist, Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor at National Reviewa magazine that has been gushing over Sarah Palin ever since its editor, Rich Lowry, became infatuated upon meeting her in Juneau in 2007said, I think McGinniss is coasting on his reputation.
Question: Ramesh, whats your basis for saying that when you havent even read The Rogue?
But I should be grateful to Ponnuru.
At least he acknowledged that I have a reputation.
Our friend Howie jumped all over him for giving me even that much credit for the twelve books Ive published over 42 years.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA: SMUG, SMUGGER AND SMUGGEST while the real stories unfold outside their cloistered havens
Theres a guy named Howie Kurtz who spent a long time at the Washington Post sucking up to people in power.
That eventually got him on TV.
Howie subsequently left the Washington Post and went to the online site, Daily Beast.
But he kept his CNN Sunday morning gig.
On Sunday, Sept. 18, Howie hosted a panel of people who had not read THE ROGUE, but who felt entitled to comment on it anyway.
Most egregious was Steven Roberts, (husband of MSM/NPR doyenne Cokie Roberts,) who used to work for the New York Times, but who now finds himself teaching journalism and media ethics at George Washington University. For which fate I pity him.
Roberts felt entitled to say, I would give Joe McGinniss a failing grade for ethics in my class from that book I think the McGinniss book is a heap of trash from everything Ive read about it.
Question: Steve, what grade would you give yourself for commenting onindeed trashinga book you hadnt read? Do you let your students at GWU turn in critiques of works they havent read? Do you grade their papers without reading them?
Michelle Cottle of Newsweek had the good grace and common sense not to denounce a book she hadnt read yet. Nor to denounce its author. Thank you, Michelle. You behaved as a professional journalist should.
The third panelist, Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor at National Reviewa magazine that has been gushing over Sarah Palin ever since its editor, Rich Lowry, became infatuated upon meeting her in Juneau in 2007said, I think McGinniss is coasting on his reputation.
Question: Ramesh, whats your basis for saying that when you havent even read The Rogue?
But I should be grateful to Ponnuru.
At least he acknowledged that I have a reputation.
Our friend Howie jumped all over him for giving me even that much credit for the twelve books Ive published over 42 years.
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