Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal

October 19, 2004

Eh? Whajasay?…

They still can hear him:

“I thought and I still think that he’s a smart and talented guy. That was not clear from anything he said on our show,” Carlson said. “I just expected him to have something interesting to say and I didn’t think it was so interesting. I thought it was banal, what he said.”

“There is a real anger out there at the media, and in many ways I share it,” Begala said Monday. “All I can control is my half of the half-hour, and I am so proud of my half of the half-hour. He’s just wrong.”

My $.02 here.

One Response

  1. Passing it around

    Do regular journalists really ignore all the media criticism going on these days? Well, I’m just an anecdote, to be sure, but I’m watching the Jon Stewart video clip spread like a virus through my newsroom. And I suspect that’s going on in a lot of new…