Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, September 06, 2005


Even though this IS Jack Shafer, he elucidates well the reasons we've stopped watching news on television -- such as the music, the "video wallpaper," "the absence of context and continuity" (a highfalutin media-critic way of saying they can't see beyond their noses and when they do see they need bottle-bottom glasses), and above all the "dishonesty" of "24/7 coverage." Hey, isn't dishonesty what TV news is about?

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