ex-Today co-host Bryant Gumbel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWhy?<\/p>\n
Because the “art” of journalism has been lost over the years thanks to these self-important TV journos.<\/p>\n
Barbara Walters, for instance, has done some good and important work over the years but she chose to remember one key event to remember on the Today anniversary show.<\/p>\n
“We probably did more on Watergate than any other program,” Walters recalled.<\/p>\n
THAT of all things was your trademark Ms. Walters? I would argue that while President Nixon was a bit paranoid and shouldn’t have bugged his office and wire-tapped calls, Watergate was entirely blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Because like some other presidents we have had, amazingly despite an overwhelmingly liberal media, Nixon happened to be a Republican.<\/p>\n
Just as in today’s politics, there is a palpable joy among newspaper and TV reporters when Republicans “mess up” or implode:\u00a0 (see the current Newt Gingrich\/Mitt Romney battle for example).<\/p>\n
President Obama, who will have overseen $6 trillion in deficit spending in 4 years in office while going through chiefs of staffs like some of us go through bottled water, meanwhile, goes mostly unquestioned by the media.<\/p>\n
Does it have anything to do with him being a VERY liberal Democrat? You be the judge of that….<\/p>\n
It was interesting to see Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric, Hugh Downs and Jane Pauley discuss themselves and TV news Friday morning.<\/p>\n
But it was a little sad, too.<\/p>\n
Check out Matt’s features on the New York Yankees,including his latest on Whitey Ford and Mickey Rivers at: http:\/\/yanksgoyard.com\/author\/mattster\/<\/p>\n
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