Let's give her a break.

so things like getting big names count more than they should.

it's one thing if it was the entertainment area only but because news has become a joke in this country we get Luke Russert on news shows instead of something like mtv or entertainment tonight.

As and Entitled of the 1%.

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...and Ronan Farrow. And that Vanderbilt kid.. Anderson Cooper.

it's so nice to have a meritocracy. cough.

It just proves that there are those "Who Have.....and Those Who Don't." and

That's the American Way these days.

So, at least they are "In your face" and "Out in the Open" about it all.

We should realize that only the "Best and Brightest and their Children" are the "Inheritors of the Earth."

It is done and predicted. It's COOL! It's "MERITOCRACY" and You and I and OUR KIDS...aren't Part of It.

The "NEW Amercian Way!" (Notice I said "New&quot Not what our Constitution/Bill of Rights was about. But, then...that was devised by OLD Folks......after a REVOLUTION breaking us away from British Empire Builders.

This is what this nation needs to deal with the reality that who you know matters, so much, to determine if you have access and options.

Since we know that who you know matters more than what you know, we should have at least a basic living income (that surpasses poverty level) to help level the playing field just a bit.

Those people with connections didn't earn their pay anymore than Paris Hilton did. But we're supposed to pretend this reality isn't the reality of American life.

Nothing to see Here.......Move Along you Peasants..with your "Needy Children."

always has been.

But, knowing this, we need to do some democratizing through legislation that acknowledges that this is the way the world works, instead of pretending merit, alone, has anything to do with economic issues.

Vietnam Era.....Before that...McCarthy Era and Hoover's FBI years.

Miles to go ....and Miles to Walk...it would seem.

is that Cooper earned his news credentials the right way, working his way up from shitty news jobs...he started out as a fact checker on Channel One, a syndicated educational news program streamed to high schools nationally daily before working his way up to becoming a correspondent for Ch. 1 and from there to doing cross-reporting for both Ch.1 and ABC...and from there to CNN. Rather than relying on his money...he came up through the system because it was important to him to be a "real journalist"

http://www.channelone.com/anchor-alumni/