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A conversation with Jim Lehrer about his book "Oh Johnny"
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- newshour
- PBS
- Jim Lehrer
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charlizecourriers 04/19/2009 02:59 PM Report
Analyst? This is the bipolar,two party dictatorship of elite,old, white males playing games with their tenured fantasies. What has been the dollar take of Lehrer as a public employee? How about the boy from the N.C. country store? These clowns are apologists/sycophants and they know it. It is indispensable to the power elites for there to be taxpayer funded analysts(sic), especially since this whole enterprise is financially untenable in its old forms. Put to a vote,all taxpayer funding would quickly disappear,for the very obvious reason that these shows are either propaganda or entertaiment-and duplicate the ordinary political party process. Here's your question,O indispensable ones: Where are the voices on these shows who are independent of the Democrat and Republican machines? The Propaganda Broadcast System is all about maintaining "our democracy" as it is. The irony is that these two superannuated fools can't quite recognize there limitations. And with authorities like this, perhaps there are good reasons not to be 'optimistic' about the path we are on...
REMant 04/17/2009 02:05 PM Report
Why is it so many journalists' highest aspiration is to be novelists? I quit thinking of a career in journalism because I thought problems were not only soluble, but that journalists should solve them. Call it the doctrine of completed staff work. It should at least be more than the first pass at history. The problem journalism has, I think, is much the same as that in education, and perhaps no group ranks lower in the estimation of the American people except politicians. Like teachers most often only those who cannot make it elsewhere join their ranks. Education, to its discredit, has found a way around that by positioning itself as a gatekeeper to higher things. Journalism does that, too, to some extent. What both really need to do is to vastly improve their workforce in order to create an audience smart enough to appreciate their talents. I see no other way. Regarding The News Hour's use of platforms, they could make it a little easier to navigate their website as they expand it. There are things there hard to uncover. To be expert with flame-throwers, BTW, you don't throw flames, but fuel, and then you light it. Just throwing the flame does nothing much.