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Friday, December 03, 2004
Just a Regular Guy, FolksBrian Williams, who lives in Connecticut, earns a nice living in double-breasted suits on TV, and may be the soul of what people mean by the words Manhattan media elite, "is a NASCAR dad who considers pizza night with the kids sacred," according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and lots of other papers this week. The Intelligencer points out that Williams has run stories lately on NBC Nightly News about, say, Billy Graham, or a soldier recovering from war wounds, as part of a well-crafted image campaign before Tom Brokaw's stately exit. Williams has to appeal to the heartland, see, or his ratings will fall. The thing is, the Intelligencer and USA Today and most of the other papers on this story just hire themselves out as court flatterers and image-crafters by regurgitating NBC's pap about Williams. If it all sounds to you suspiciously like a presidential campaign, not journalism, then you can go ahead and leave the country, pardner. I just might.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
5:08 PM
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