MattR writes of Jake Tapper’s appearance on Laura Ingraham:
To add to my earlier comments about the audio, while it is clear that Tapper does not push back hard against Ingraham it is also hard to place all the blame on him given the format of the show.
That is probably true. I am probably wrong to make my criticism too personal (though I don’t think I was out of line), because it’s all in the game. Brian Williams fluffs Rush Limbaugh when he’s not having his paid shills on his show. All these jack asses called into Imus all the time back in the day, and so on.
Relative to Terry Moran and David Gregory, Tapper is a journalistic giant; he’s written books, at least one of which is supposed to be good, and, aside from clowning around in the press room, I find his reporting to be more intelligent and accurate than most of the competition. That’s part of why this pissed me off.
I can’t see any way to take network news seriously after this.
Sorry to beat this into the ground. This is my last post on the subject.
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