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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJournalism Is in a Disastrous State -- But for a Handful of Millionaire Pundits, It's Wonderful
http://www.alternet.org/media/media-millionaires-journalism-and-001-percentJournalism Is in a Disastrous State -- But for a Handful of Millionaire Pundits, It's a Wonderful Life
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Thomas Friedman
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman has written a number of bestsellers, and regularly holds forth on outlets like public TVs Charlie Rose show. All of the globe-trotting and yearning for a radical centrism in American politicswhere sensible climate policies could be paired with cuts to social spendinghave paid off handsomely.
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David Gregory
As host of NBCs Meet the Press, David Gregory is paid to quiz politicians on the tough issues of the day. But he offers his own opinions on the show, too; hes encouraged the Obama White House to propose big spending cuts in order to confuse Republicans (1/27/13; FAIR Blog, 1/29/13). He thinks the White House should have done more to have a moment in the Rose Garden with a few corporate CEOs (11/11/12; FAIR Blog, 11/13/12), and demanded to hear more from the White House about the hard choices Americans must make to get by with less ( 1/29/12). He worried about the problem of Occupy activists demonizing Wall Street ( 10/10/11). He expressed concern that the more people criticize big banks, the closer you get to wiping out the shareholder completelya person who is not just a fat cat ( 2/22/09).
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Fareed Zakaria
Whats the single biggest threat to the U.S.s fiscal health? If youre super-pundit Fareed Zakariacolumnist for Time and the Washington Post, as well as the host of a weekend CNN showthe answer is pensions for public sector workers. That was his message in a Time magazine column ( 6/25/12) that cheered on Democrats willing to stand up to labor unions.
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Chris Matthews
As the political winds at MSNBC have shifted, longtime Hardball host Chris Matthews has tried to go with the flow, adopting a somewhat more liberal outlook in order to keep current.
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Journalism Is in a Disastrous State -- But for a Handful of Millionaire Pundits, It's Wonderful (Original Post)
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Jul 2013
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HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)1. all those pundits write for each other. it's a little closed echo chamber. their writing sucks,
they suck, they make this country suck.
kentuck
(111,098 posts)2. Examples of a dying free press.
in the decline of America.
KG
(28,751 posts)3. yea, journalism is in trouble, but let's not equate it with the blathering of the talking head class