OnPoint's Tom Ashbrook interviewed NBC's Tim Russert last Wednesday. I listened to a bit of this interview while running errands.
One segment, stuck: Russert described a recent Oval Office visit where the President hosted some baseball greats, and invited Russert and his son to participate. Ashbrook correctly asked Russert if this was an example of a cozy insider relationship (I'm paraphrasing) and therefore, can one be objective in covering politicians. Russert insisted that he of course, can......
This is a great example of a major problem today: the cozy relationships between major media and the political establishment. There's also this: Meeting the press and surviving it; which describes Russert's recent interview with Colin Powell. Powell's press aide pulled the camera away when Russert evidently broke the interview's ground rules.
Posted by Jim at May 24, 2004 08:13 AM | TrackBack