Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
David S. Broder's death reminds us that too many newsmen have reps for reasons lost to the fog of time, that their reps enable them to stay with their employers long after they should have left, and the scorn they earn for hanging on covers up what genuinely good work they did. It paradoxically also reminds us that too few newsmen speak with any real authority anymore, authority that they can only earn with time, time most of them don't deserve to accrue, and thus their business can't speak with authority.
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