The shrieking
The latest MSM scandal imagined up by the clown car known as the right wing blogosphere is that PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, who is scheduled to moderate the VP debates, has a conflict of interest because … wait for it … she has written a book that gave her access to Obama.
Let’s think about this. What is a non-fiction book? It’s basically a longer version of a magazine feature article. If Ifill had written a cover story for, say, TIME magazine, that involved her having access to Obama, is that a conflict of interest? No, because that’s what a journalist does, he or she writes nonfiction.
Most of the blathering of that side of the blogosphere about mainstream journalists comes as a direct result of them not knowing what journalism is.
Thank you.