For me, it's Russert, Barbara, and King for an unholy trifecta.
________________________________ From: PGage <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:15 PM Subject: [TV orNotTV] Barbara Walters Top 5 It's a crowded field, so I am not quite ready to award her #1, but it seems to me clear that Walters will go down as the most over rated so-called journalist in the history of television. http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/barbara-walters-retires-so-long-to-one-of-americas-last-listeners/2014/05/14/22c4b81e-dac3-11e3-bda1-9b46b2066796_story.html The WaPo piece here illustrates part of the myth-making that has always surrounded her: "She’s one of America’s last good ears, allowing even the most notorious among us to have a say, asking many (if not always all) of the questions we wanted answers to, while never seeming to make the occasion about herself." What? The ONE thing Walters was always good at, and could always be counted on doing, was making every occasion about herself. She interviewed Yasser Arafat at the height of his "career", and managed to make it more of "An Evening with Barbara and Yasser". I give her credit for fighting the old boys system, but what she achieved for herself is more the status of Larry King than Walter Cronkite. -- -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
