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Mar 27, 2007 Medialites
Chris Wallace slams pretty boy Keith “Toy Department” Olbermann in a stunning impromptu performance. It’s a pleasure to behold and, of course, the hat tip is courtesy of Bob Cox’s Olby Watch.
Pleasant surprise? Mike Gallagher is still alive! Man, does he do a beautiful “Londonderry Air.”
Disappointment? Continued worship by Wallace at the cult of Edward R. Murrow.
March 28th, 2007 at 6:07 am
The irony was pretty thick during that last part when Wallace actually said, “This is what the news business has become.”
March 28th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Whaddya mean, Ara?
March 28th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Here’s a great transcript (with a few typos) from a WW2 broadcast by Howard K, Smith with the US 102nd Infantry Division in Germany as they began to break through the German lines near the Roer River in February 1945. This is what war broadcast journalism could be at its best.
http://carol_fus.tripod.com/army_hero_over_the_river.html
My father served with the 701st Tank Battallion, which supported the 102nd during this period.
March 28th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
This version (from a book) appears to be typo-free and also includes photos of the operation:
http://www.lonesentry.com/102thrugermany/pg30.html (proceed page by page)
March 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Whaddya mean, Ara?
Simply that Chris Wallace works for a news network that allows its logo (“Fox News”) to appear next to a screen graphic that says (sans question mark, no less): “Democrats Legislating Defeat In Iraq.”
There’s more, but once I get started it’ll be hard to stop and I have work to do.
March 28th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
LOL — that is a funny graphic. Yes, very heavy on the editorializing there, eh? Yet all they are doing is mirroring what is done, without comment, on CNN and the networks. This is certainly beyond the scope of this thread, though. Wallace himself is still a journalist and, in all seriousness, it cannot be maintained that Olbermann is.
March 29th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Wallace himself is still a journalist and, in all seriousness, it cannot be maintained that Olbermann is.
Do we want to argue whether Wallace is at Olbermann’s level or vice-versa? Because, in the world of 24/7 cable TV news, I don’t see much difference between the two.
And I’m being charitable to Fox in saying that.
March 29th, 2007 at 7:57 am
You keep referring to Fox, which is a distraction, Ara, and makes it clear that you must really be on the ropes in terms of the comparison between these two. This discussion is not about Fox. It’s about the two men. Keith Olbermann is a sportscaster and wise guy with no — zero — political or “serious” journalism bona fides. That Chris Wallace, in contrast, does have them, cannot seriously be questioned.