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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes. I see them at the gym but never tune into the audio. The news/commentary channels are only interesting in a morbid way.
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  • Posted by straightlinelogic 11 years ago
    Clicking the link reminded me again why I don't watch TV news. Below the video was a promo for the "powerhouse roundtable." With the exception of Atkisson, the members were obviously intellectual lightweights and empty suits. I can name at least twenty members of the Gulch who have more to say, and would say it much better. These people are puppet purveyors of party propaganda, and they are so, so...ordinary. And they make tons of money.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Even the the President of West Wing didn't see the need to do that ;)
    I can't make myself watch House of Cards. Maybe the President has done it on there.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 11 years ago
    I remember Nixon's funeral more than the liberal media witchhunt of Watergate.
    Nixon's funeral was the first time that I noticed how obviously all the networks were telling the identical story of a "news" event with not an iota of original creative reporting or analysis. Straying from the approved tale ceased.
    (Admittedly I had lost faith in network news almost exactly a year earlier.)
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  • Posted by irrelevantcommentforpoint 11 years ago
    Investigative journalism in the mainstream is dead.
    Not cynicism, fact.
    That panel was packed with empty headed looters and Sharyl was the token this time, there only to "prove" their balanced reporting,
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I remember when Clinton was on the Tonight Show and thinking- the leader of the free world is hamming on TV. What does that say to the rest of the world. Of course Putin runs around with his shirt off. If you feel the need to use your fame for entertainment purposes, you probably shouldn't be President. they are not supposed to be votes of popularity, but votes of confidence. I'm probably old fashioned in this regard
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years ago
    Yeah, but can you imagine Nixon and John Stewart or The View. Now there's a picture.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago
    Sharyl Atkisson was quite cynical and correct, but actually she understated what it would be like now.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    It's not all about entertainment. Perhaps even more than the entertainment value, it is about getting their political candidates elected and their agendas pushed through.
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  • Posted by edweaver 11 years ago
    There are still a limited number of reporters that have the guts to do their job. The true purpose of the media was to be a watchdog over the government. Now it is all about entertainment.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years ago
    I love when people say what should be said no matter how out numbered they are.
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