My attempt to list to Weekend Edition Sunday lasted about all of 10 minutes this morning. After a report on Speaker Pelosi going to the Middle East that was framed by Liane Hanson, who was contrasting it with "gentler times" (uh, when were those? and no, David Broder's daydreams don't count as an actual time) and unlike the period when "politics stopped at the water's edge" (uh, again, when was that exactly? prominent political figures in the US were bitterly divided over foreign policy during the Washington administration), Dan Schorr was given airtime to talk about how political figures needed to be wary of e-mail (he must have put together that piece from the files marked "duh"). NPR's Washington editor (who Hanson eventually got around to interviewing after her lengthy, inane intro) was good, but once he was off the air ... yikes.
Posted by armand at April 1, 2007 09:33 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Mediai understand Schorr has a long, distinguished reputation, but i very very rarely find even the slightest glimmer of insight in his reports, and those rare occasions are vastly outweighed by the things he says that strikely me as profoundly stupid or wrong.
Posted by: moon at April 1, 2007 11:38 AM | PERMALINK