Joe has a post below on the problems of NBC’s Meet The Press and David Gregory.  I haven’t watched the Sunday shows for years simply because I have better things to do.  I’m sorry but David Gregory is not the problem!  They parade the same cast of characters every week making them irrelevant.  Why should I tune in to watch John McCain when I already know what he is going to say?

Over at The American Conservative Rod Dreher has an excellent suggestion:

I don’t know if it’s possible ever to bring them back, but you know what would be worth trying? Bring on some non-traditional types to talk about issues of politics, culture, and public life. Why not ask a philosopher, a theologian, even a novelist to address issues? I couldn’t possibly care less what John McCain says about anything, but I would love to know what, say Marilynne Robinson thinks about health care policy, or what Tom Wolfe has to say about immigration policy. Bring outside voices into the insular conversation. What could it hurt?

I would add to Rod’s list some real historians that aren’t on just to push their latest book – historians who are not public personalities but just hard working academics.  Realistically I don’t know if such a show would attract enough eyeballs to make the show viable but the current format is not working so it might be worth a try.