The broadcast portion isn't all that matters. Glenn criticised the reporter personally. If there was more to the interview, the fault is editorial and the personal criticism might be unfair or overblown.

Print media has editors. There are various editors in broadcast news media but they perform a different function. The producer makes the "content and editorial" decisions in broadcast media. John King may produce his own segments and have more control over content than you realize. He may not have to answer to many people in that regard.

We ink-stained wretches of the fourth estate were never cute or flippant.

We filed good serious stories, leavened with occasional written entertainments that were light and refreshing without ever being polluted by cuteness or flippancy.

The citizenry were well served and well informed by our good and solid reports and essays, and each citizen learned what he (or she, after the 19th amendment) needed to know in order to make reasonable decisions in the voting booth, and keep our republic on an even keel. Then radio ruined everything.

And then, even worse - - TV! - - Don't get me started!

And get those bloggers off my lawn!

And where are my Tums?

Walter Map

Glenn Greenwald does not have proof that ‘…these are all of the “questions”…’ King asked McCain in that interview on that day.

Glenn’s critique of the piece was based on two things:

1. The quality of the questions,

2. The absence of better questions.

Glenn provided evidence on point 1 but not point 2.

Glenn Greenwald, by failing to respond to this, is proving that he shares some poor journalism and credibility standards with John King.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=16512

Uh, Mr. Gifford...

I know reading is boring,tiresome, and difficult, but it does add a bit of credibility to what you might say in your canned and pathetically lame rebuttal. Try it next time. Although you were far too busy to read the comment thread, what with depositing your wingnut welfare checks, it was amply discussed and irrefutably concluded that the only valid judgement of any published work is based on what was actually published. This leaves all the quality journalism that no doubt overflowed CNN's dumpster really just a tad beside the point.

The fact is that King's interview was utter trash, of a sort that has amply shown itself to literally derail democracy, and his response was worse than silence. It showed the elitist, disdainful, and really abusive personality behind the crappy, useless babble that CNN put on the air.

Let's leave aside the poor grammar and infantile writing, for the moment.

Your defense of said nincompoop and his contemptuously inane blather only reinforces Glenn's thesis.

What King really needs, besides a conscience transplant, is better toadies. You won't do.

That the guy might have asked some non-inane questions that were not shown.

It's pretty irrelevant, given that he did ask the allow for that fact, which merely transfers blame more to CNN.

That said, John King had his chance to correct the record and said nothing of substance. We got to hear from both sides and one of them was a blithering moron.

You'd think a real journalist would

(1) be able to distinguish between criticism on his work and on his person/ego and

(2) would at least be prepared to consider that he might have made a mistake.

Just the fact that he's not able to think critically about himself, well, that says enough.

Reminds me of that great line Pacino so wonderfully delivered: "Vanity, my favourite sin."

There is a small valid point being made here

(t)hat the guy might have asked some non-inane questions that were not shown.

I beg to disagree. The interview that Glenn was critiquing, and that he embedded the link for, was the interview that aired on CNN's Situation Room. And that interview had only four soft-ball questions. Whether or not King asked any other non-inane questions at the same time, and we only have King's after-the-fact word for it that he did, they were not a part of the interview broadcast on CNN. If they ended up as wasted pixels, or were never taped in the first place, it doesn't really matter, since they weren't a part of the Situation Room interview that Glenn was critiquing.

Not to go all Prof. Smith here, listing my vaulted background and such, but I've got some experience in news editing and my informed guess would be that King himself had editorial control over his segment. If the interview that aired didn't include any substantive questions, it was probably because that's the way King packaged it. So he's got no one to blame for the lack of substance but himself. And if he purposely left out the hard-hitting questions, then that too speaks of his vapidity. The questions that are either un-asked, or asked but un-aired, have the same result.

Are you sure your not that hummable Winnie The One who loved honey?

Mona loves honey bears? Her clients must call Gordon

sweet?

If it were a Spring Day and I'd take a walk, I'd call Gordon Butter Cups? Huggable. Lovable.

Anonymous can get started. It's the yellow straight talk school bus? heh.

Are we needing to go back to the kindergarten teacher,

'mercie a dieu' ~?~ desiree. yikes! wow.

Mona says, Mei maxima culpa, Me Maximo gulp, and probably loves two teaspoon of honey in a teacup?

I like to get up and continue my habit,

which I can't seem to easily break yet.

I'll get up like a monkey, and hew-haw-huh to heave a thought like a donkey? Mei have a cough of cuppa of tea with you. One day the monkey fell from grace? He/She got outta' bed and bumped the hard head.

I love the expression, 'It don't mean Nothin'' and you need to guess it means so very much, instead.

Anonymous made me wonder if a quick postmortem exam was given to our fake-journalist that the vet may say 'neocons' need to be vaccinated with doses of truth like baby chillun'!

One day we will all be laying on cold chilly slabs.

The moo cows may poo in the region? How-now brown cow.

Ya's gotta love that Mona and everybody! Do the moo cow shuffle! Sing Chad cha, cha cha, moo moon, whoa! O, we can brag we are all grads of kindergartens. What fun kinfolk visit heremia the monkey until a day we/me bump our heads here or on the sassafras wood floor somewhere.

One is never certain fer' sure of anything.

Amen, bro. and sis. Holy hoopla. I feel shy.