On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kevin M.<[email protected]> wrote: > > I honestly haven't made up my mind, but the reason I think I'm leaning > the direction of not liking it is because throwing a politician into > an anchor chair seems like a bad idea. Yes, Dean can speak about > health care, but there should be somebody, even a biased somebody like > Keith, directing the interview, otherwise it is an infomercial for a > certain political perspective.
I'll concede that point. I prefer to see the discussion about policy rather than the political horse race implications or irrelevant distractions. The dispassion some news hosts bring to the discussion can suck the energy out of it, so that's why I would champion Dean. But if I were to watch a news show done from the other side, even strictly focusing on policy, it would probably still drive me nuts. I mean, if Sarah Palin or John McCain > filled in for Hannity and said whatever she or he wanted to say for an > hour (note that aside from counting down five stories, none of > Countdown's regular features existed last night), Democrats would crap > their pants (though comedians would love it). I don't know. In the > end, Countdown isn't really a news show, so it shouldn't matter, but I > still see a distinction between host and guest, and this could just be > another blurring of the journalistic lines. Or it may be a rare and > fortuitous instance of getting it from the horse's mouth. Like I said, > I'm still on the fence. I consider Countdown a news show because it breaks enough stories for me. I should add that I watched Dean's Countdown on Tuesday night. When I saw the rundown of stories last night, I only watched one story, about TV programming during the recession, and found it the sort of noncommittal and uninformative stuff that caused me to give up on the nightly network newscasts. I didn't see any of the Dean panel segments as worth watching. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
