Who needs psychics anymore? These shows feature the journalistic elite talking heads making predictions about what WILL happen. These shows are now an institution and those on them surely belong in one.
Watch Jon Stewart’s take on this HERE.
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.