The practice of journalists interviewing journalists has become a pet peeve of mine. So I was irked recently when listening to NPR’s Morning Edition and the host introduced a story about the Egypt reaching the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak being ousted as president. In order to recap the last year and the turmoil Egypt […]
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Don’t Blame the Web, Punditry Has Ruined Journalism
The list of the guilty is long: CNN, FOX-News, NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC, BBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TIME magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and even Rolling Stone. The crime? Journalists interviewing other journalists (or being the journalist being interviewed). This practice – which started with “Meet the Press” back in 1947 – has […]
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February 21, 2013 


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