Some heartfelt advice to Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza, two excellent journalists who now seem to be aspiring satirists:
Don’t quit your day jobs.
Before you put up a You Tube that makes a comedian with flop sweat look like Chris Rock (and doesn’t enhance your image as journalists) you might want to consider THIS, THIS, THIS, or go to this guy for some coaching (as I did).
If you don’t, you will continue to produce unfunny humiliating embarrassing reputation-destroying uneven satirical pieces like THIS that uses Barack Obama’s “beer summit” as a take off point — and immediately crashes to earth:
Meanwhile, some are angry over this video, protested — and there has been some corporate action..
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.