I’m not a Keith Olbermann fan, although I do monitor his show and many others on Fox, CNN and MSNBC, but as a former full-time journalist I must say: the segment below is a classic. Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle recently said that she wants reporters to be her friends, who’ll ask her the questions she wants to answer and let her give out her website address so she could get campaign contributions.
(Oh.)
So…with the help of some videotape….Olbermann “interviewed” Angle and gave her the kinds of questions (softball) that she expects when she’s interview by her chosen de facto p.r. people posing as reporters reporters. Although — of course — he does use the editing for some partisan punch lines..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id1RacdFHx4&feature=youtube_gdata
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.