The interview by the Irish journalist is still available on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fze2J2Ve9is

I guess I wasn't as focussed on the "on record/off record" aspect so much as I was the fact that Paxman pretty much grills important people, in a very direct way, about things that matter and he still seems to have no problem lining up interviews.

If Tucks and his buddies were to adopt Paxman's approach to an interview, even if they never had an "off the record" slip-up, they would still lose the sources they've fawned so lovingly over for the past 6+ years.

It isn't about "Teh Record". It's about the pandering in the US press.

And if they did lose the sources they've been using, I sure wouldn't mourn. That lying bunch of "anonymous" losers needs to be replaced.

So bladuneufppwenrehhyb you sonofabitch, you're in the army now!

I forgot some of the words. Thus, the garbled part. ;o)

-- Kitt

My neighbor brought us a hot toddy spiked with Amaretto. Was he in your neighborhood too? ;->

if you do not get interviewed on NewsNight or Radio 4's Today morning program, you might as well be invisible as a politician.

Would that it were the same here. ;->

I'm afraid that Herr Bolton reserves that phrase for another part of his anatomy.

Which interviews have you been watching?

I bet it wasn't on Youtube. ;->

I would just like to state them I am available for on-the-record interviews. If written questions are submitted in advance, detailed answers will be forthcoming. And of course I will answer additional questions as they come up.

One day's advance notice would be nice.

Though I share your opinion that the public's trust in the press has been progressively deteriorating, I'd like to point out another way of viewing the statistics for CNN that you mentioned. In 1998, CNN was coming to the end of nearly two decades of cable news hegemony. In late 1996, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox news moved into that sector all at once. I think the results of that study could also be showing that CNN was once reveered for its objectivity simply because its format made it unique and ubiquitous. Once everybody else got in the act--and CNN premiered its Headline News to compete with Fox--the man behind the curtain was revealed. Viewers perhaps, thinking that anyone with enough cash could start their own 24 hour news network on cable, lost faith in the purity of their former deity.

Exploring nature today was wonderful. We've gotten over a foot of lovely snow.

We cleared our drive and did our neighbor's too. Filled the feeders for the birds and made a hole in the pond ice so they could drink.

Had a snowball fight and made snow angels.

Sorry I've been so quiet, was out of town on business.

Too tired now for navel lint. Had too much fun being a kid again.

I have such a question. Perhaps tomorrow you can tell me what it is, to moose, yes please?

I am studying the English, and she is sometimes not going.

On and off// .... a come here and I go....

In one dang brief day in my rural home....

We have discussed money, and health benefits, a future....

We have debated with YOU (sorta) cheddar cheese puffs....

Cell phones, a rodeo-main-stream-press, and ugly frowns....

We spoke Of Remembrances of loss of past loved ones, shared smiles, and the genuine real tears....

And with mutual understanding: we discussed greed, lies, wars, healing, and the Hope in a future.... I Thank You.

I do thank everybody.

I read and also hiccup?

It's often sorta intoxicating.

It's better than watching The Three Stooges reruns on TV.

We talk Rye bread, curly, moe, and Glenn tossing out the law school kisses?

A person needs to be thankful, and there is no need to get drunk if here....

Drink raw milk, tea, soda pop, and anticipate the Spring while 'we' reverence truth.

I really believe the better aspects of 'our' mutual shared human fellowship does emerge.

I hope it's not too silly to think people here do speak as if they had two gold shiny teeth?

I think William Timberman should, out of courtesy, buy every reader some skim milk, and make 'it' non-fat, ice cream-cones, dipped in melted chocolate. W.T. Also: Tell Owen his zipper is not zipped ~ down? Give Bill Owen a Oscar? Give BO a monster red lobster, or send him to a fenced-in barb-wired, Leavenworth facility, and order Bill Owen some brown-shirt swaggering baloney sandwich? I've not yet read all the daily comments.. I best go to sleep.

It is windy. grey sky. Nature is proposing thought.

I scold trolls for while reading, @ The www.Salon,

all the great comments, for having insufficient awe!

We’ve almost had an all time record of snow this winter and because I am retired and can shovel when and if I want to, I really enjoy the shoveling. It’s triple purpose: I get the snow out of the way; I get some good exercise; I get to enjoy nature and cold weather and sometimes the sun. Then when the grandkids come over like today, we get to slide on it and throw it or make something. In this fast-paced life, we often overlook how much fun there is in the simple things. Of course Bebop never does.

I Had never heard the name of Tucker Carlson until today and had to check him out in Wikipedia. His background is undilutedly conservative and he is part of the Establishment. Why would someone with those credentials badger Gerri Peev who wrote the article on Samantha Power in "The Scotsman"? Samantha Power is/was working for Obama, a non-American journalist "spilled the beans" on her lack of tact while speaking to the foreign press, Ms. Power resigns and the conservative Carlson takes "The Scotsman" journalist to task. If he's a Republican supporter, which seems to be a given, why isn't Carlson dancing with joy at this resignation rather than berating the journalist who, indirectly, caused it? It doesn't make any sense to me but maybe it does to Americans.

Jeremy Paxman is the jewel in the British broadcasting crown, a man who demands straight answers who doesn't toady to anyone. I hope the rot hasn't eaten so far into the fabric of American life that honesty is a lost virtue. That is not how the world once viewed the United States but I've been amazed how manipulative your media has become. Unless, as an outsider, you've paid close attention you'd imagine that there had only ever been two candidates for the Democratic nomination - Clinton and Obama. The others were dismissed by the media and I don't think that would be tolerated in any country which claims to be a democracy. The Internet has given the world a window to look into America and the view isn't that great.