Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The Media - How it is
Perhaps on a rainy day, I'll read the transcripts of this interview; but, for now this synopsis seems to say quite a bit on it's own...
At TownHall.com, Hugh Hewitt summarizes his interview with Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's media critic. Here's part of it:
"Worst of all, they lost their collective news judgment years ago, and still haven't figured out how to get it back. They keep hiring people from inside the junior varsity bubble of the Ivies and J-schools and wonder why they can't break out of their Manhattan-Beltway bubble. They don't seem very curious about life outside of the elite world which they inhabit, and when they travel it is with the comforts of a nawab of the Raj. They have retinues that make star athletes jealous, and salaries that would suggest audiences that rival Cronkite's. In short, they are an aristocracy every bit as unaware of the revolution underway around them as that of France's in 1788.
Did I say "worst of all?" Whoops. The death of news judgment is their greatest failing, but their greatest burden for which they are only partially responsible is their loss of trust."
