Why do reporters interview each other?

Anaxamander

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Mon Nov-01-04 09:54 PM
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Why do reporters interview each other?

I'm sitting here watching Chris Matthews interview Tom Brokaw about the election and I can't help but think what a circle jerk the media has become (yeah, I'm kind of slow to realize things). Up next: Peter Jennings interviews Brian Williams, Bob Schieffer talks with Jim Lehrer, and the cast of Crossfire runs head-on into the McLaughlin Group.

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walldude

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Mon Nov-01-04 09:56 PM
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1. They love the sound of their own voices

and I wouldn't really call them reporters anymore. Most news anchors are really commentators.

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PDittie

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Mon Nov-01-04 09:57 PM
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2. Not even their wives want to talk to them

about politics any more.

So all they have is each other.

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Lefty48197

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Mon Nov-01-04 09:59 PM
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3. The people you mentioned are tame

compared to when Sean Hannity interviews Bill O'Reilly for an "expert" opinion. Oh wait, your post was about JOURNALISTS interviewing JOURNALISTS. Nevermind.

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Anaxamander

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Mon Nov-01-04 10:09 PM
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4. Yeah, I don't even know what to call them anymore.

Luckily, I've never been subjected to a Hannity/O'Reilly clusterfuck. *shudder*

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hangloose

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Mon Nov-01-04 10:11 PM
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5. while their interviewing each other someone should ask CNN

correspondents why they can't cover the war first hand. I have viewed CNN correspondents on CNN making all kinds of excuses why it’s too dangerous to leave the Green Zone and cover the war.

I work for a company who has 100 guys in the field all over Iraq working 7 days a week. If we can somehow function a do our work why can't CNN?

Maybe it's not the risk, it's what they will see and have to report. Things that wouldn’t be to popular if broadcast to the American public. Let's say a form of self-censorship

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leftofthedial

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Mon Nov-01-04 10:13 PM
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6. because it's easier than doing their jobs

and the idiot oligarchist elites who run corporations are too inbred and stupid to realize that people want substance, not spin and celebrity reality bullshit.

So, you have one intellectual lightweight interviewing another intellectual lightweight, each of them pretending to say something while actually just regurgitating the daily talking points.

It's a frigging marionette Punch & Judy show.

Turn them off.

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jrthin

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Mon Nov-01-04 10:17 PM
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7. "Circle Jerk", so true. n/t

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realFedUp

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Mon Nov-01-04 10:44 PM
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8. They all work for the same company...

GE in this case, same network...
seem to recycle the same guys
under their contract, seems even
Craig Crawford and Howard Fineman.

Inane to those of us who get it.

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Cleita

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Mon Nov-01-04 10:47 PM
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9. The sound of the house of cards collapsing?

If they have to interview each other to fill time, it seems no one really wants to talk to them anymore.

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thinkingwoman

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Mon Nov-01-04 11:06 PM
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10. Laziness

Pure laziness.

Wha? Find a legitimate source and ask them real questions? That's hard work!

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