Jay Carney, Revolving Doors and the Beltway Bubble
01/28/2011 by Peter HartJay Carney was a Time magazine reporter, bureau chief and frequent TV talking head. He is married to ABC reporter Claire Shipman. He left journalism to be Joe Biden's communications director, and was just named Barack Obama's next press secretary.
It used to be more common to see people criticize this media/politics revolving door. Journalists who jump over the supposed divide between the supposed watchdogs and the powerful institutions they're watching do little to dispel the sense that the Beltway is one big cocktail party. (Read "Party Like a Beltway Insider Journalist!"--FAIR Blog, 4/26/10--for some sense of the terrain.)
Which brings me to Howard Fineman's piece about Carney in Huffington Post (1/27/11). Which starts out with this:
Among his other attributes, Jay Carney is a cool dancer. I know that because I saw him and his wife, Claire Shipman, getting down on the tented dance floor of a fancy Georgetown wedding years ago. Jay Carney, who went to Yale and was a foreign correspondent in Moscow, is--besides being smart, savvy, loyal and well-connected with the right sort--suave.
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January 28th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by R. G. Price, FAIR. FAIR said: Howard Fineman gushes over "smart, savvy, loyal, well-connected…suave" Jay Carney. http://bit.ly/fFGvEm [...]
January 28th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Who cares was Howard Fineman has to say. He never takes a stand – he always punts on a question.
January 28th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
And across the aisle, John's Deboehner. Let US DANCE!
January 29th, 2011 at 6:09 am
Obamas last guy was the worst.BAM could say the sky is full of pink elephants and these clowns have to explain it.It has always been a circus job.
January 29th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
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January 29th, 2011 at 4:38 pm
uh, how quickly they forget true badness in press secretaries….
Appearing on NPR's quiz show, "Wait, Wait … Don't Tell Me," Dana Perino admitted a story she'd previously only shared in private: When a reporter asked her a question during a White House briefing in which he referred to the Cuban Missile Crisis — she didn't know what it was.
January 30th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Yea saying who was the actual worst press secretary is kind pointing to a job where one of the interview questions is "could you lie if you had to"?