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Brian Williams is an announcer, and from the snippets you've published of Peggy Noonan's remarks she doesn't appear to be one of America's great thinkers, but we're coming out of eight years of Bush-Cheney, and I've noticed that TV and print news has been awful. I basically think America has been dumbed down, and that will have serious implications for the body politic. I've been home for a while nursing a bad back, and if you want serious commentary from the media, NBC's Brian Williams is not the place to go. Try PBS or C-SPAN, or Charlie Rose. They relish hard subjects; they like "nuance," and they really do try to be fair. The story of America's promise has captured the imagination of immigrants around the world who still queue up to get papers to come here, so I agree with Ms. Noonan about that. The other side of the story, is how terribly the Bush administration has tainted that promise, and cheerleaders like Mr. Williams and Ms. Noonan should be willing to admit that too.
