When journalists bite spindoctors
It happens very rarely that American journalists actually carry out a penetrating interview - don’t forget Kieren’s post about the awfulness of US TV news, where they don’t actually tell you news - but the presidential campaign seems to have put at least one on her mettle. Fantastic interview here, or just watch it: the fireworks start about five minutes in, as ..er.. Ms Brown interviews some guy called Tucker, who is desperately spinning for the McCain campaign on Sarah Palin over the question of what on earth she actually did that was worth doing in Alaska:
Found at Ewan Spence’s blog, where he has a great comparison of the UK’s most vicious - yet fair - interviewers, vs the US.
Just for a reminder of how bad it can be. Kieren did have a clip that he said was almost parodic - but it’s been taken down. Hmm.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
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- Sorry, but I'm not sympathetic to the Guardian's gap blogger (21 February 2008; score: 31.02%)
- PR treats journalists not as resources, but like car companies treat parts suppliers (updated) (5 February 2009; score: 25.71%)
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