Comments on: Damn You Harry Shearer!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:02:14 +0000

Even just that word, accountability, if it was more assiduously pursued and more actively practiced, oh what a world we’d have.

Greta post!

By: durai

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By: Miz LIz

Miz LIz — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:44:54 +0000

How refreshing to read this. I think that all journos need to take a page from your (and Harry’s) book!

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Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:57:53 +0000

[...] Vest, who is a fellow journalist turned blogger. If you haven’t yet, go read the full post, Damn You Harry Shearer. Rarely was I able to dig any further, as the news cycle was short, the attention span of listeners [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:33:14 +0000

See, that’s the difference between you and I. I like Harry, because any time that my wife and I are making hot sweet monkey love and I feel that I am going to “get to the finish line too soon”, I just picture him from the end of the movie “A Mighty Wind”. Problem solved:) ha ha ha ha

From a serious standpoint, even the Bob Woodward’s of the journalism crowd probably only ever get that one brief defining moment of their journalism career. It’s not like he was “All the Kings Men” every deadline, you know?

After all, you pick your battles, you can pick your nose, but no one notices if you pick your nose during battle.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:45:54 +0000

Actually, the show was on CSpan, not PBS, and the podcast can be downloaded via iTunes. My bad.

By: Karoli

Karoli — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:45:09 +0000

I’m with ya on this. It’s so frustrating to be jumping up and down on the blog and twitter and newsgang about something important only to have it met with…silence, while the networks are biddying about stupid stuff that doesn’t matter in the long run.

There was a great show on PBS over the weekend about the Internet and the campaign with some well-known bloggers. One of them (don’t rememember who now) said that it doesn’t seem to matter much what we do as bloggers until it gets picked up by MSM, and that hasn’t really changed much. It’s so true.

Just look at all the FISA coverage by MSM. Oh, wait! There was none except for MSNBC.

By: Judy C

Judy C — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:39:37 +0000

As I watch our civil liberties dissolve I am painfully aware that many of my friends simply don’t care about accountability beyond a 30 second sound bite. You have captured the essence of this issue – you and Harry Shearer. Ok – I am off to Huffpo to read his posts! You have only yourself to blame!

Seriously I will be forwarding this post to everyone I know – thank you 0 VM is right – you rock.

By: Victoria Marinelli

Victoria Marinelli — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:54:18 +0000

You rock. That is all.