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Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The mind of Gen. Stanley McChrystal
If you are an almost nobody in your 20s, any good journalist can get you to forget he/she is a journalist and get you to say things you do not really wish the world to know: the fact is that journalists have no friends, they just have sources.
But if you are a well known hero general in his 50s, what makes you run your mouth? You got to know that the journalist will tell what you say, even if maybe you do not realize how much you said.
The general and his team did not just criticize the President, they were unhappy with everybody: Washington, their own ambassador in Afghanistan, the Afghan President, the British allies, and that says only one thing: it says they were not on top of the game.
But if you are a well known hero general in his 50s, what makes you run your mouth? You got to know that the journalist will tell what you say, even if maybe you do not realize how much you said.
The general and his team did not just criticize the President, they were unhappy with everybody: Washington, their own ambassador in Afghanistan, the Afghan President, the British allies, and that says only one thing: it says they were not on top of the game.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Front-Page: homage to Bruce Weber
There is nothing on a front page any more that we have not seen on the web. The French say:"A la une!" meaning: it is important, it is front-page stuff. It is still true, that if there is a big scandal or a national disaster, people buy more newspapers. This has made journalists believe that the front page is what readers are interested in, that it is what sells. Movies have re-enforced this theory, from Bogart to Robert Redford and Denzel Washington. And generations of TV anchors think that their job is to milk the death of Michael Jackson or the last terrorist threat. They call it "investigative journalism". Hmmm. This generation is not like the Nixon generation, people nowadays want excitement, they have no patience for information.
But of course, the front-page is just another myth that contributes to killing journalism. What I see around me, what I have seen since the 1950s, is that people take a cursory glance at the front page and turn immediately to the local weather and the obituaries. These topics are the true bread and wine of the readers.
It is specially true around the new year, when we remember the people we lost, some real friends, and some imaginary ones: actors, artists, musicians who were important to us. My heart misses a beat when I think of Patrick McGoohan, of the Prisoner's fame, or Maurice Jarre, not only for the music of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, but also for all the beautiful work he did for the theater before he came to the US. And then, caricaturist David Levine, brilliantly described by Bruce Weber in the New York Times.
Newspapers could be saved by less romanticism and a more honest look at their readers. Let obituary writers run the front page: it will remind the readers why they still want to buy newspapers.
But of course, the front-page is just another myth that contributes to killing journalism. What I see around me, what I have seen since the 1950s, is that people take a cursory glance at the front page and turn immediately to the local weather and the obituaries. These topics are the true bread and wine of the readers.
It is specially true around the new year, when we remember the people we lost, some real friends, and some imaginary ones: actors, artists, musicians who were important to us. My heart misses a beat when I think of Patrick McGoohan, of the Prisoner's fame, or Maurice Jarre, not only for the music of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, but also for all the beautiful work he did for the theater before he came to the US. And then, caricaturist David Levine, brilliantly described by Bruce Weber in the New York Times.
Newspapers could be saved by less romanticism and a more honest look at their readers. Let obituary writers run the front page: it will remind the readers why they still want to buy newspapers.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Journalist of the month: Borzou Daragahi
Libya's coup: Turning militants against Al Qaeda
This is the first encouraging paper about terrorism in a long long time. As a Pulitzer finalist, Mr Daraghi does not need the congratulations of my little blog, but this is a fine paper indeed. It baffled me.
Moreover, the Los Angeles Times is one of the best papers in the world for international politics:it is about time I nominate one of their great journalists with this heartfelt thank you.
I did not know that Libya was making any effort of that kind. Seen from here, many countries seem a bit apathetic regarding terrorism, just like for the Israel-Palestinian conflict: it is complicated, and there are people very active at taking advantage of it. People and politicians who thrive in wounds, like fly larvae.
So today, some good news. I needed that.
This is the first encouraging paper about terrorism in a long long time. As a Pulitzer finalist, Mr Daraghi does not need the congratulations of my little blog, but this is a fine paper indeed. It baffled me.
Moreover, the Los Angeles Times is one of the best papers in the world for international politics:it is about time I nominate one of their great journalists with this heartfelt thank you.
I did not know that Libya was making any effort of that kind. Seen from here, many countries seem a bit apathetic regarding terrorism, just like for the Israel-Palestinian conflict: it is complicated, and there are people very active at taking advantage of it. People and politicians who thrive in wounds, like fly larvae.
So today, some good news. I needed that.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
On Tiger Woods
Quite a few people made money out of trashing Tiger Woods, with excuses ranging from "the public needs to be informed" to "If I do not do it, somebody else will."
Well, tabloid guys, you should follow Tiger's example: quit that job and become better persons.
Well, tabloid guys, you should follow Tiger's example: quit that job and become better persons.
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Art of the Insult
I am surprised to see our major newspapers accept comments that are not very helpful: "President Bush is an idiot", "President Obama is a fool"...I think that guys who write like this are wife beaters, always steaming. Are newspapers so afraid of losing their non-paying customers that they do not dare letting go of this mud? To me it is like Hitler showing up around the corner: there are consequences to disrepecting democracy.
I was ready to write a piece on how politics degenerates in this country, but then, when I opened my last issue of The New Scientist, I found that the editor had suppressed about one third of the comments on a paper about some obscure acceleration of a satellite.
There is page after page of: "This comment breached our terms of use and has been removed." I found the reading hilarious: how come readers with most probably a college degree dare insulting one another on a subject that nobody understands?
More wife beaters. I should not be surprised: I met racists and wife beaters in any social category.
Insult used to be more poised a few centuries ago. The Prince of Ligne used to say that Casanova would have been handsome, if he had not been so ugly.
Voltaire once removed his hat when a priest crossed his way. He was asked if he was reconciled with God. "We salute each other, he answered, but we are not on speaking terms."
I was ready to write a piece on how politics degenerates in this country, but then, when I opened my last issue of The New Scientist, I found that the editor had suppressed about one third of the comments on a paper about some obscure acceleration of a satellite.
There is page after page of: "This comment breached our terms of use and has been removed." I found the reading hilarious: how come readers with most probably a college degree dare insulting one another on a subject that nobody understands?
More wife beaters. I should not be surprised: I met racists and wife beaters in any social category.
Insult used to be more poised a few centuries ago. The Prince of Ligne used to say that Casanova would have been handsome, if he had not been so ugly.
Voltaire once removed his hat when a priest crossed his way. He was asked if he was reconciled with God. "We salute each other, he answered, but we are not on speaking terms."
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Journalists of the month Connolly-Murray
- Doctor, I do have health insurance, but it does not work when I am sick.
This is the first time in months that I think I learned something useful about health care in
8 Questions about health-care reform: Update
Reporting by Ceci Connolly and Shailagh Murray
Here is the link
There is a lot of work behind this paper and the authors make very clear for us what is going on.
Great Job!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Journalist of the month: Noam Cohen
No contest this month, the most interesting paper for me was written by Noam Cohen in the New York Times: about new trends in the army.
It appears that any army personnel can help re-write or contribute writing army manuals (in the same spirit as Wikipedia).
This is the most important change in the mindset of the army in the last four thousand years, so you should read this.
Somehow it gives me hope that the army, at least ours. is finally growing up. Seriously: the Army might get out of this effort manuals that everybody understands and a more modern treatment of problems.
Bravo!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Paper of the month: Tara Bahrampour
In wake of unrest, Britain replacing US as Iran "Great Satan"
Washington Post, July 17, 2009 You can read this paper here
This is an excellent paper which points out the difficulties we have in understanding not only foreign people but foreign governments.
How we are viewed abroad, and consequently how some government policies can be designed against us is not always based on facts, on good sense or on good information: it can be based on a reputation or on past encounters. In this report, Britain is seen by the Iranian government as the colonial power it was fifty years ago. I believe it: it took me some decades to change my opinion of Germany after WWII. Painful experiences with people or government make it hard to change our point of view.
This example is a good lesson for the US. We should do better with our strategic communications. and indeed restrict the publicity made by the Pentagon: they need the promotion but they are not the best at this; you should read also in the Washington Post, the paper by Walter Pincus (July 28, 2009)about the criticism coming from the House Appropriations Committee on this subject.)
I suggest that we change our image by hiring the people who promote tourism in Ireland: they make everybody want to go to Ireland which is a flat place with its past destroyed, always in bad weather and always on the verge of civil war. They have been consistently successful with this difficult task, therefore they can do anything. They are the best promoters in the world.
Washington Post, July 17, 2009 You can read this paper here
This is an excellent paper which points out the difficulties we have in understanding not only foreign people but foreign governments.
How we are viewed abroad, and consequently how some government policies can be designed against us is not always based on facts, on good sense or on good information: it can be based on a reputation or on past encounters. In this report, Britain is seen by the Iranian government as the colonial power it was fifty years ago. I believe it: it took me some decades to change my opinion of Germany after WWII. Painful experiences with people or government make it hard to change our point of view.
This example is a good lesson for the US. We should do better with our strategic communications. and indeed restrict the publicity made by the Pentagon: they need the promotion but they are not the best at this; you should read also in the Washington Post, the paper by Walter Pincus (July 28, 2009)about the criticism coming from the House Appropriations Committee on this subject.)
I suggest that we change our image by hiring the people who promote tourism in Ireland: they make everybody want to go to Ireland which is a flat place with its past destroyed, always in bad weather and always on the verge of civil war. They have been consistently successful with this difficult task, therefore they can do anything. They are the best promoters in the world.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Dealing with new news
Gov. Sanford, Michael Jackson and troops out of Irak...What do they have in common? They fill the news and then they disappear from the news, as soon as all the juice has been extracted by CNN et al. As one says in French: "Un clou chasse l'autre", that is one nail drives another or more clearly: life goes on.
I have a guess that Gov. Sanford must be one rare happy person about the death of Jackson: it got him off the hook. We got hours and hours and unrequited hours on his confession and his exotic mistress, and then blink! Down to zero. Hours and hours on Jackson. They almost forgot the news from Irak.
Obviously there is no relationship between time on the news and importance of the event. It is all about the perception of how much audience you can get.
I PLEAD GUILTY too: I had completely forgotten about Al Franken. Got a breaking news alert from the New York Times and the Washington Post today telling me that he has won the election. When was the election?
Last year.
How could I forget about Al Franken so fast?
I have a guess that Gov. Sanford must be one rare happy person about the death of Jackson: it got him off the hook. We got hours and hours and unrequited hours on his confession and his exotic mistress, and then blink! Down to zero. Hours and hours on Jackson. They almost forgot the news from Irak.
Obviously there is no relationship between time on the news and importance of the event. It is all about the perception of how much audience you can get.
I PLEAD GUILTY too: I had completely forgotten about Al Franken. Got a breaking news alert from the New York Times and the Washington Post today telling me that he has won the election. When was the election?
Last year.
How could I forget about Al Franken so fast?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Political lesbianism
Yesterday, Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) mentioned a congressman who said publicly that she was a cross-dressing lesbian. It made me laugh: for over 50 years, and I am now reaching 70, I have been a lesbian for all the men to whom I said no, and a whore if I happened to say yes. I thought this was specific of my generation, but it seems that we have now shifted from the general contempt for women to the ultimate political argument. Congratulations, congressman!
It does not say much about Miss Maddow, except that she is feared. It says a lot about the obscure ex-congressman Bob Ney (except that I did not infer that he ended up in jail): it tells me all about his age, his education and the quality of his heart.
HA! has-been congressman, you must have been a stud!
It does not say much about Miss Maddow, except that she is feared. It says a lot about the obscure ex-congressman Bob Ney (except that I did not infer that he ended up in jail): it tells me all about his age, his education and the quality of his heart.
HA! has-been congressman, you must have been a stud!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Blinding views in the press
There are in the press a few things that I find really tiresome.
Bernard Madoff is ashamed. Really? At his age? After all these years?
It makes me think of "Nixon was just a political victim, everybody does that". People who say this are well intentioned, but they have never listened to the tapes.
A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses NOT AGAIN?
If we do not do anything, the economy will recover by itself. Well, yeah, it is like you pollute an estuary, you still have crabs: "mother nature takes care of herself". And five millions unemployed? It is "the price we pay" for progress?
Museums (ruined by the economy and some just by Madoff) have to sell works of art to survive. If that is all the imagination they have, it is time to fire their CEOs. The New York State Legislature had apparently the same feeling, because they just introduced a new bill to prevent that. See in the NYTimes here an excellent paper by ROBIN POGREBIN. It made me want to meet Richard L. Brodsky who drafted the bill, and it is not very often that I want to meet a politician! I wish legislation like this would appear in every State.
I see that our senators are all excited by "Financial literacy". I am all for it. Who do you think will teach us? The broker or the banker?
Bernard Madoff is ashamed. Really? At his age? After all these years?
It makes me think of "Nixon was just a political victim, everybody does that". People who say this are well intentioned, but they have never listened to the tapes.
A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses NOT AGAIN?
If we do not do anything, the economy will recover by itself. Well, yeah, it is like you pollute an estuary, you still have crabs: "mother nature takes care of herself". And five millions unemployed? It is "the price we pay" for progress?
Museums (ruined by the economy and some just by Madoff) have to sell works of art to survive. If that is all the imagination they have, it is time to fire their CEOs. The New York State Legislature had apparently the same feeling, because they just introduced a new bill to prevent that. See in the NYTimes here an excellent paper by ROBIN POGREBIN. It made me want to meet Richard L. Brodsky who drafted the bill, and it is not very often that I want to meet a politician! I wish legislation like this would appear in every State.
I see that our senators are all excited by "Financial literacy". I am all for it. Who do you think will teach us? The broker or the banker?
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Journalist of the month: Gary Marx
Every month I praise a journalist who has been teaching me something that I will remember: journalists need some encouragement in today's crisis. Of course I usually try to pick somebody who just started. This month is different: the author, Gary Marx already had a brilliant career.
He wrote a piece in the Chicago Tribune that you can find here. The piece was recommended to me by my stumble friend Dan360 it is about the supermax prison of Tamms.The paper is superb and has stunning photographs.
I have a beef with the US jail system since I proposed to the local jail to give lessons in science and financial education and I was told that "only religious leaders were allowed to talk to convicts".
By contrast to jail, in a supermax prison, you find extremely bad people. I am under no illusion, because I was once victim of a psychopath; some people are evil and should be kept apart under lock and key. In the present state of science, they cannot be cured. Is it a reason to treat them like cattle? I do not see why, because I do not see what we gain from this: it is shameful.
To tell you the truth, I have worked all my life, and I resent people who do not work the best they can. So, not only they are bad people and we got to lock them up and feed them, but they do not contribute to society? We all work, not just to feed our family but to help each other. One person prepares bread, and one transports it, and one repairs the roads, and one builds houses: we all depend on each other, it is what makes this society successful. What kind of politics is it that makes the taxpayer pay through the nose to humiliate a bunch of evil guys for the next fifty years and then prevents prisoners to contribute to society the little they can? We have enough charities around that need help.
Prisons where I live, in GA, cost us a fortune,- we got half a million people in the system, and many people come out of it worse than they went in, despite the visits of religious leaders (but not scientists) of all kinds: it is time lost for them and for society. We should force them to learn: often they go to jail because they never learned anything. And if they are on the list of evil guys, by all means let us keep them locked and make them work.
There is in the bunch of prisoners a good proportion of people affected by mental diseases that could be cured. It makes sense to me that they are legally responsible, but it does not make sense that they are not treated when we can do it. Does it makes sense to you?
Bad people should learn and work like the rest of us and they should be shown as much humanity as security allows. Because humanity is what they do not have.
He wrote a piece in the Chicago Tribune that you can find here. The piece was recommended to me by my stumble friend Dan360 it is about the supermax prison of Tamms.The paper is superb and has stunning photographs.
I have a beef with the US jail system since I proposed to the local jail to give lessons in science and financial education and I was told that "only religious leaders were allowed to talk to convicts".
By contrast to jail, in a supermax prison, you find extremely bad people. I am under no illusion, because I was once victim of a psychopath; some people are evil and should be kept apart under lock and key. In the present state of science, they cannot be cured. Is it a reason to treat them like cattle? I do not see why, because I do not see what we gain from this: it is shameful.
To tell you the truth, I have worked all my life, and I resent people who do not work the best they can. So, not only they are bad people and we got to lock them up and feed them, but they do not contribute to society? We all work, not just to feed our family but to help each other. One person prepares bread, and one transports it, and one repairs the roads, and one builds houses: we all depend on each other, it is what makes this society successful. What kind of politics is it that makes the taxpayer pay through the nose to humiliate a bunch of evil guys for the next fifty years and then prevents prisoners to contribute to society the little they can? We have enough charities around that need help.
Prisons where I live, in GA, cost us a fortune,- we got half a million people in the system, and many people come out of it worse than they went in, despite the visits of religious leaders (but not scientists) of all kinds: it is time lost for them and for society. We should force them to learn: often they go to jail because they never learned anything. And if they are on the list of evil guys, by all means let us keep them locked and make them work.
There is in the bunch of prisoners a good proportion of people affected by mental diseases that could be cured. It makes sense to me that they are legally responsible, but it does not make sense that they are not treated when we can do it. Does it makes sense to you?
Bad people should learn and work like the rest of us and they should be shown as much humanity as security allows. Because humanity is what they do not have.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Best paper of the month: JULIE CRESWELL, LANDON THOMAS Jr.
There are always great papers on the international scene, but I had trouble finding a good paper made in the USA this month. Of course, the inauguration of a new President gets so many expected comments, not much stands out.
I was very pleased to find in the New York Times a paper entitled The talented Mr Madoff, by Julie Creswell and Landon Thomas Jr. It presents Madoff as a psychopath, a possibility I examined here too. There are only two ways to detect a psychopath: you studied them because it is your job, or you have been the victim of one, which gives you more needed insight.
There was a paper earlier in the NYT by Allen Salkin (Jan 16th) about Madoff and his frat brothers: people hardly remembered him; it is interesting to note as it was also a a characteristic of The Talented Mr Ripley, one of the best descriptions of a psychopath in literature. Mr Madoff ruined many personal friends of his: he used their loyalty against them. It is also very typical: a psychopath sees your friendship for him as your weak point and thrives on his victories over you.
There is an old guy like that living on my street: everybody thinks that he is a nice person. But he once told me that the best moment of his life was when he was very young: he had built a kite with a razor blade attached to it, and he used it to cut loose the kites of the other children. The children would cry and run to their mothers, but they did not guess that he was responsible for the disaster and it amplified his fun.
The old man has not changed: he did not have the education of Madoff, so he is reduced to play lesser games, such as stealing mail and letting his dog run after the neighbor's cats.
I was very pleased to find in the New York Times a paper entitled The talented Mr Madoff, by Julie Creswell and Landon Thomas Jr. It presents Madoff as a psychopath, a possibility I examined here too. There are only two ways to detect a psychopath: you studied them because it is your job, or you have been the victim of one, which gives you more needed insight.
There was a paper earlier in the NYT by Allen Salkin (Jan 16th) about Madoff and his frat brothers: people hardly remembered him; it is interesting to note as it was also a a characteristic of The Talented Mr Ripley, one of the best descriptions of a psychopath in literature. Mr Madoff ruined many personal friends of his: he used their loyalty against them. It is also very typical: a psychopath sees your friendship for him as your weak point and thrives on his victories over you.
There is an old guy like that living on my street: everybody thinks that he is a nice person. But he once told me that the best moment of his life was when he was very young: he had built a kite with a razor blade attached to it, and he used it to cut loose the kites of the other children. The children would cry and run to their mothers, but they did not guess that he was responsible for the disaster and it amplified his fun.
The old man has not changed: he did not have the education of Madoff, so he is reduced to play lesser games, such as stealing mail and letting his dog run after the neighbor's cats.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Maddening madddening maddening
Some small things make me mad. You got to read this paper (wow, this is great journalism under a bad title) from Peter Finn in the Washington Post: so it appears that the office of military commissions has accidentally withdrawn the charges against everybody at Guantanamo Bay and had to refer them again?
Is there any limit to incompetence?
Is there any limit to incompetence?
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Best journalist in December: Derek Kravitz
I have been complaining about journalists quite often, sometimes here (see list on the right) many times while talking to a screen. It is not their fault: their training is atrocious, the money is short, the pressure is inflating their egos and they usually already think that they would do better than Congress (this I think too, but I do not show it on TV). Editors have no idea how exasperating trivia can be when you read them 20 times in a few days. I cant wait to see the end of the holidays and to escape papers on:
- the shoes of President Bush
- the absence of shirt of the president-elect
- icecream cones in Hawaii
- the illegitimate children in the Palin family
I am reading daily the New York Times (I finally forgave them for frauds that I thought were structural), the Washington Post because they are still honest and they have bright people, the Huffington Post because they come elegantly online, and the Los Angeles Times because they are always good on Latin America and the Middle East.
I have been pleased to read Derek Kravitz in the Washington Post recently. Here comes a young journalist that does not annoy me with the daily trivia. He picks up subjects where he has to dig information instead of choosing moody stuff where there is style and no content. The guy works: he has a future!
Derek Kravitz attracted my attention a few month back with a paper on Indian Affairs; I wish more had been done on the subject. There is a lot to tell. But I guess one gets to prove oneself nowadays by jumping through the hoops instead of chewing on a good thing. And today, I read with pleasure a paper entitled Homelessness Official Wins Praise With Focus on Permanent Housing HA! A journalist praises somebody in the Bush administration, it has been a long time! I wish we could find some more, because of course there are more: as a democrat, I keep thinking that a view of government without nuances is not good for democracy. This is the story of a civil servant who keeps trying: give me more. The subject of homelessness, once again, is worth more papers.
And if I could suggest to Mr Kravitz one more topic: there are one million children neglected or abused every year in this civilized country. A bunch of papers would be welcome on that topic too. Is this drug related? Ignorance related? Can we solve it with more daycare? Should we have more education for future parents? Dig this enough, you might change the worrld.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
The claim of being honest
Newspapers claim they have to close doors, they "restructure", we all know what that means and still, they spend money to cover the president-elect taking a swim in Hawaii. I first thought it was ridiculous, then I realized that they are waiting for him to get killed. To be fair, that is what they expect when they follow President Bush in Texas too. The no-news today could turn into a national catastrophe at any moment: after all, President Roosevelt died in his Georgia little house. Well, ok then. How many people do you need on that kind of watch? More than two?
What irritates me even more is that, because these journalists are paid and there is nothing to say, I get coverage that enrages me, such as an analysis (in depth) of the political consequences of President-elect Obama going to swim without a shirt and tie. Gee, and you wonder why we do not want to buy newspapers anymore! What a loss for democracy!
On top of it all, there are reports that the President-elect tried to bribe journalists by offering them a beer. Mr Obama was unrepentant because he also offered them ice shavings. Come on! I understand why a journalist politely declines, but I find it unacceptable that a journalist would even think of mentioning it proudly ("none of us accepted") What am I supposed to believe? That the CNN guy who reported this proved to me how honest he is? For refusing a beer? On the contrary, it makes me anxious: I think the guy should be investigated by a district attorney back home.
There is nothing suspicious like claiming that you are so pure that you refused a beer. Either the pool of journalists comprises some very dishonest people or it shines with very stupid ones.
Or both.
What irritates me even more is that, because these journalists are paid and there is nothing to say, I get coverage that enrages me, such as an analysis (in depth) of the political consequences of President-elect Obama going to swim without a shirt and tie. Gee, and you wonder why we do not want to buy newspapers anymore! What a loss for democracy!
On top of it all, there are reports that the President-elect tried to bribe journalists by offering them a beer. Mr Obama was unrepentant because he also offered them ice shavings. Come on! I understand why a journalist politely declines, but I find it unacceptable that a journalist would even think of mentioning it proudly ("none of us accepted") What am I supposed to believe? That the CNN guy who reported this proved to me how honest he is? For refusing a beer? On the contrary, it makes me anxious: I think the guy should be investigated by a district attorney back home.
There is nothing suspicious like claiming that you are so pure that you refused a beer. Either the pool of journalists comprises some very dishonest people or it shines with very stupid ones.
Or both.
Friday, November 7, 2008
Journalists, dear pundits, keep your flies up!
What is all this talk about Sarah Palin? What she knows about Africa and how many skirts she bought? Do I have to listen to that for 24 hours? Enough already: how do you justify that this is "news"? I did not even think that miss Lowinsky skirts were news. I just looked at a bunch of old CNN journalists discussing Mrs Palin's wardrobe, and I got so irritated that this image came to my mind:Sarah and the old pundits.
Let it go, give me news, and I mean information. That should be your job. Give us information instead of repeating what everybody says. This is lower than the Enquirer.
Mrs Palin will come out of this or she wont. Leave it alone and tell me more about Detroit.
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