Comments on: Town Hall – Minus the Town http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/08/town-hall-minus-the-town/ The national media watch group Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:21:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Doug Latimer http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/08/town-hall-minus-the-town/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Doug Latimer Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:49:41 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=592#comment-46 Don't mean to Bogart the board, but another thought occurred ... Don't you wish someone had said, "This is my pre-approved question, which I'm not allowed to deviate from or follow up ..."? I'd have loved to have seen the expressions on Brokaw's, Obama's and McCain's faces, wouldn't you? How many hits would that have received on YouTube? Don't mean to Bogart the board, but another thought occurred …

Don't you wish someone had said, "This is my pre-approved question, which I'm not allowed to deviate from or follow up …"?

I'd have loved to have seen the expressions on Brokaw's, Obama's and McCain's faces, wouldn't you?

How many hits would that have received on YouTube?

]]> By: unlikelysource http://www.fair.org/blog/2008/10/08/town-hall-minus-the-town/comment-page-1/#comment-45 unlikelysource Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:56:45 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=592#comment-45 Would you call Brokaw (or Couric or Gibson or any of the other corpress "personalities") a "journalist"? Naomi Klein is a journalist. Robert Fisk is a journalist. That is, they seek out facts and present them in a logical context. I'm not saying that they or other true reporters are Jesuses on a stick ... but I feel I can critically trust what they're telling me. Can you ever trust anyone with their own makeup team? Would you call Brokaw (or Couric or Gibson or any of the other corpress "personalities") a "journalist"?

Naomi Klein is a journalist. Robert Fisk is a journalist. That is, they seek out facts and present them in a logical context.

I'm not saying that they or other true reporters are Jesuses on a stick … but I feel I can critically trust what they're telling me.

Can you ever trust anyone with their own makeup team?

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