You're absolutely correct Glenn. As a veteran journalist, I'd say your critique was entirely appropriate. King's assertion that you should have "reached out," presumably to contact him, is garbage. You were reviewing his performance. King, as a Washington hack, assumes that if you called him, the two of you would become friendly, perhaps even buddy-buddy and you'd lay off, perhaps even write some nice things about him. That's the way the Washington rat pack works, right?

...in his observation regarding the *real* dynamic at work in the infotainment sweatshops of ameirka...

unless/until we can recapture, repurpose, and reform 'our' (sic) media, revolution will be the only solution...

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come the revolution, talkingheads will be sent to the smithsonian...

art guerrilla

aka ann archy

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Unfortunately, Mitt Romney won Michigan yesterday, and with Huckabee's win in Iowa, the Republicans now have a three way race.

Huckabee is the GOP nominee. Hillary Clinton is the Dem nominee. HRC is the next president . . . as the script calls for. But we have to suffer through a few weeks more of idiotic inane vapid "analysis" about age circles, tears, man scent, body posture, vocal tones, hairdos, and when they want to talk about the "issues"- who knows who is on the 10 dollar bill and how much a gallon of milk costs, but mostly it will be weeks more of who our useless giggly high school pep squad of political "reporters" thinks is the coolest.

King is a respected poo-flinger. Good for him?

should you have to call and ask about the un-aired portions of the interview? If he wanted to look unbiased, he should have asked more unbiased questions so that they couldn't all be "un-aired".

begin{JK} You clearly know very little about journalism. But credibility matters.

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That way, even on days that I don't consider my best, or anywhere close, I can look myself in the mirror and know I tried to be fair and didn't call into question someone's credibility just for sport, or because I like seeing my name on a website or my face on TV.

end{JK}

You hurt his credibility. That is right, YOU hurt HIS credibility. He did not do it himself, and certainly CNN played no role.

A pompous jerk. His email says volumes about him and, if anything, suggests Glenn has gone easy on him. And people wonder why I don't watch CNN.

You hit a nerve..

And even in the Junior HS mode in which these guys operate King loses..

He blew his cool, and blowing your cool is never cool.

Yeah, and very soon on a television near you - maybe within the next "news cycle" - the "top-tier" candidates will be asked if they'd like to go to the Saudi king's next horse show.

The interview was mainly to get a couple of questions to him on his thoughts on the role of government when the economy is teetering on the edge of recession, in conjunction with similar questions being put to several of the other candidates.--John King

I looked back at the list of questions. I still don't see a single question on "the role of government when the economy is teetering on the edge of recession." Out of six questions, not one deals with topic King claimed was the main thrust of the interview.

Glenn needs to get a you-bath-tub show? Glenn 'should' realize he has no journalist credentials and a fbi-only profile. A flop.

Without a tub-scene on a prestigious Internet or a CNN daily news-show, he is a failed human being. He needs to be fired from www.Salon.flop.

Glenn's naked body needs more public exposure. Readers need to see him on live face-to-face interviews daily. He can start up a new send-$$$-show.

He 'should' fluff his hair. Speak on a Platonic level to readers about verbal affectionate languages. For Exile hide the meanings so readers can satirical guess his deeper thoughts.

Write:

You dirty no-good @%&$!!?

And Bye the way! You cnn-#@?!?

You know where you can go coin? Here: at go to the ~^~*%$$$@!?

You know readers know where you live? Yea at *(?){!}*%$#@@!?

Why does wait so long to open-up? Shy? Yea, and &^%$#@!!!@!?

Glenn needs to feel loved and validated. Yea, and ^>?"'"!@!?

We need to say 'stuff' like, "Pressie the Lord? and @!~`~!~!~

Glenn deserves to feel like damn Zippy peanut butter on a pin.

The egos these guys have is incredible. They can do no wrong. They are always "fair". However to get access to their subjects they have to get chummy and yet they refuse to see how that alters their perspective and objectivity. If anyone challenges that they get all puffed up and lash out. CNN has revamped itself to compete with Fox. That's some standard, eh?

What a torrent of self-righteous indignation! Truly interesting. I watch these seemingly inter-changeable manikin/stenographers on the TV and marvel at their bland affect, the total lack of endearing, personal idiosyncracy, any faint glimmer of personality.

How amazing. Underneath all that phony geniality and transparently false bonhommie, is a quivering mass of roiling emotion. Make a valid criticism and they erupt with invective. Their outsized egos are centered around their dubious stature as "serious journalists." What they don't realize is that most of us see right through the facade and discern the craven careerism that lies underneath, a failing apparently unredeemed by any personal commitment to such old-fashioned notions as the public's right to know, pursuing the truth beneath the spin and secrecy, which is, by the way, the bedrock commitment of any truly "serious" journalist.

King may not realize it, but Glenn just did him a favor. After he has calmed down, he may, simply out of pique, decide to practice a little journalism for a change. Just a little, not enough to rock the boat, of course.

What rot is exposed when these representatives of our "free and independent press" are confronted with the truth about their comfortable roles in the Village establishment. What a display of ego from among upper-crust journalism's tribal elite -- King's meltdown is quite amazing to behold, like seeing the puppet-master who operates the puppet come from behind the scenes to reveal himself. They're really flesh-and-blood human beings after all! Who knew?