I don’t think that is fair. Todd is not good, but he is much less bad than Russert.
Also, let’s not lose the main point here (a danger with Steve’s comment about Brokaw frequently guesting on Dave). The claim is not that Brokaw is a bad journalist. I don’t think he’s nearly as praiseworthy as his late career reputation, but I have followed him closely since his days anchoring the local news in Los Angeles with Jess Marlow when I was a kid, through his work as WH correspondent and Today Show host, and judge him to be above average in these roles. The claim is not even that his bigoted recent remarks on MTP somehow disqualify him from further work as a TV journalist. “Old white guy says something racist about Hispanics on TV” is about as “dog bites man” as it gets. The point is that what he said is both bigoted (specifically partaking of a brand of anti- Hispanic bigotry that flourished in Southern California in the 70s and 80s, the kind that fueled the “make English the National language law” movement, and that ultimately led to the functional end of the Republican Party in California), and demonstrably incorrect (as was made clear yesterday, 99% of the grandchildren of immigrants from Spanish speaking countries speak English, and many are no longer comfortable in Spanish). Brokaw still has not apologized or acknowledged he was wrong. On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 1:32 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > To be fair to Todd, he's not much worse than Russert, who, beyond looking > for "gotcha" questions, fulfilled the network's requirement of bringing on > guests who upheld the conventional wisdom of conservative rich white guys. > > --Dave Sikula > > On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 7:44:03 PM UTC-8, Greg Diener wrote: >> >> >> >> On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 12:47:10 AM UTC-5, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: >>> >>> I have to ask, why is Brokaw commenting on things he is not an expert >>> on? >>> >> >> Because Chuck Todd is a terrible moderator. >> >> Greg >> > -- > 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. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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.
