On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:26 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t think that is fair. Todd is not good, but he is much less bad than > Russert. >
If the bar is set at “not as bad as Russert,” MTP needs to raise the bar. > 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. > My issue is still less focused on the stupid thing Brokaw said, but more focused on why he’d be asked to comment on the subject. That’s where the Russert comparison comes in, where Todd was simply clueless about why Brokaw’s opinions on this topic couldn’t matter less. He wasn’t paying enough attention to his show to realize he should ask an expert questions... or don’t ask the questions. > 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. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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.
