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The chattering class do okay when they merely have to read the news, but when they veer off into providing analysis and opinion their inane and insipid callowness is exposed. They are talking heads, albiet empty ones.
They were chosen because they were telegenic, not for their intelligence. They have no apparent knowledge of history or life outside the beltway. Everything they encounter they try to force into predetermined narratives.
It’s the ascendancy of the Ted Knight school of journalism.