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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2741)2/25/2002 9:59:19 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 7720
 
I picked up The News About the News by Downie and Kaiser. Yawn. Same old tired cant.

Thanks for the review. I won't bother with it. Sorry you're out the price of the book.

Who do you think meets that standard? Tim Russert is often praised as one who does. But check this out.

I caught that Russert interview. I like him a lot. He does much better by my criteria than most. I was startled by the intensity in his tone, enough that I looked up from my computer and actually watched the interview rather than multitasking the TV news via osmosis as usual. It was quite clear to me that he preferred Feinstein's position to Brownback's.

Your blogger's interpretation of that as liberal bias, though, is, well--talk about same old tired cant. The most neutral explanation is the one I just gave. Asking tough questions is not necessarily an indication of bias. It can mean that the interviewee is viewed as not telling the truth or the whole story or not making sense. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with bias, liberal or otherwise. Even if it's bias, it might not be left/right bias but some other bias. Russert's obvious preference may only have meant that he found Feinstein's arguments more compelling on principle, for example, the argument about the importance of judicial temperament on an appellate court rather than the bent of the candidate or the panelists. It seems to me that the bias of the author or the critique in summarily attributing Russert's preference to liberal bias is at least as great as Russert's.

Karen
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