PSoTD

It's sad when you realize that the predetermined observations of someone well past 15 years of writing anything enlightening will not stop receiving high level media attention until that person is dead.

Unless, of course, the newspaper outlets for that person die first.

It is amazing: CNN sucks more as a news organization every year. Their convention coverage this year was barely better than unwatchable. I couldn't care less about every CNN personality they try to brand on their news, and it's very clear that their number one goal is to brand the news, not report it. Wolf Blitzer has become a very bad joke. They really should fire everyone there and start over. Frankly, there are people at Fox News that are better than most of the on-the-air "talent" they run at CNN.

Funny how few television news "personalities" have been offended by John McCain's treating them like puppies chasing imaginary sticks today. Hey, Lieberman's in Dayton! No he's not! Where's my blackberry! Who has the most recent misleading hint from McCain! Woof woof!

There are dumbasses in the United States that say they will vote against their own interests out of hurt.

This just in from me: the 2004 election showed there are dumbasses in the United States that will vote against their own interests because they're dumbasses.

CNN promotes the first group, and supports the second group's ignorance. Thanks, CNN.

I actually agree with this Atrios snidety as a standard.

There's not a good reason to keep people like David Broder and the recently retired Bob Novak on newspaper payrolls past a certain age - or at least a proven reason. I know that there's some sort of theory that they've built contacts and history and wisdom that the newspaper can tap into with the columns, but frankly, they've also built up a premium cost and predictable processes and an established coterie of quote contacts and a predisposed viewpoint of the world that has gotten more than their share of time, and it's time for them to go. The same argument newspapers make about columnists can be made about state government employees and I don't see much clamor to keep the state government employees around past mandatory retirement.

These aged scribes have an audience they can tap into with their own blogs if they're really that damn interesting, and so they should go do it. I suspect that David Broder doesn't want to learn how to do a blog, and that's really the problem - if a columnist doesn't want to learn on the job, then what good are they?

Yup, that headline says it all.

I feel bad for Tim Russert's family over his untimely death. This, however, is wrong. There are plenty of REAL journalists, people who have paid their dues with work, that deserve a shot at this, I'm sure. This IS WRONG.

Journalism should not be considered a fiefdom.