by David Phinney
Sunday May 5th 2024

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Media coziness

too many investigations
http://mediamatters.org/items/200703260010
Gridiron
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/31/AR2007033101298.html
But is it funny? As humor trumped skepticism once again last night, we couldn’t help wondering why this charade parade goes on year after year. Or is that skepticism we see every day at White House news conferences and nightly news interviews just a stage show,and this chumminess reality?
Below the Beltway
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/03/30/03
Socializing between reporters and the people they cover is part of the D.C. landscape. But when they actually tie the knot, are journalists in an ethical bind? We asked Fortune’s Washington Bureau Chief Nina Easton, who’s married to John McCain’s media advisor.
KARL ROVE
Asked if the performance at Wednesday night’s White House Radio & Television Correspondents’ Dinner — in which Karl Rove got up onstage and rapped with NBC News journo David Gregory and others — was a good thing, Robert Novak said he didn’t think it was funny. “That’s my test. If it’s funny.”

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  1. Alankrita says:

    But Cheney who has gobs of money gets so much as a pimple on his teendr fat ass, the American taxpayers foot the bill ( for life) so that a legion of doctors can trip all over themselves tending to his every discomfort. I’m hoping for the day when the Grim Reaper becomes his attending physician.

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