Most vacuous, NON hard-hitting, useless TV "journalist" today:

[brentspeak]

There's just too many of these anti-Murrows today to list in one poll.

[Ian David]

1. Other: Gracie Jane... I mean Nancy Grace. n/t

[AlCzervik]

2. "Burn her , she's a witch!" thank goodness Nancy and flaming nostrils o justice

weren't around in during the Salem Witch trials, i'm pretty sure if she was there would have been no inhabitants left to populate the east coast.

[nam78_two]

9. Surely even she can't be pretending to be anything but a tabloid reporter(?)

or whatever people who host crap like that are called? :puke:

[OHdem10]

12. While, I do my fair share of criticizing the Media,

and do belive they warrant criticism at times, I also
try to remember John Dean(Watergate Fame or Infamy--take
your choice.

There was a panel discussion on C-Span. John Dean was on
the panel. He was asked a question regarding the Media.
Why the Media appears to either avoid covering certain
stories or reporting tough pieces, asking hard questions
of the WH and Adm in particular.
John Dean explained there is he believes a certain amount
of fear on the part of journalists. This is a very tightly
run ADM. especially when it comes to the Press. If they
report too negatively, they fear retaliation. Lose their
source at the WH, for example. No story, long enough No Job.

People have been fired over reports. They have to raise
their families too.

To me this says much more about our Democracy than Journalists.

Do not, however, be surprised if I am on the attack
tomorrow. I cannot be good all the time. Sometimes
they deserve it.

[LibDemAlways]

3. Everyone listed is making a huge salary thanks to

their willingness to obey their corporate masters. No boat rockers in that crowd.

[Time for change]

4. I vote for Tim Russert

He's downright dangerous, and worse than the ones mentioned above because he's a flaming hypocrite who pretends to be a hard-hitting journalist while giving the Bushies every advantage he can:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/31

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

15. Agree 100%, plus he's much higher profile

Meet The Press is an institution that gives him much more weight than any of those others - more than all of them put together. Russert acts like he inherited the mantle of Huntley & Brinkley, but he's not much better than Tony Snow.

[Time for change]

16. Yes, and it's not quite fair to say they're ALL useless

Keith Olberman, Bill Moyers, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert especially come to mind.

I personally believe that Keith played a major role in the 2006 elections -- counteracting a lot of the crap that passes for journalism these days. Without him we would have less seats in the House, probably would have lost the Senate, and may have lost the House as well.

[Bukowski Fan]

5. While saying "they're all useless"

would be my knee-jerk reaction, I'd have to say Greta Van Sustern seems to me to be a little above the rest. First off, she, along with Colmes, is always the first one mentioned among FNC's "liberal newscasters". This just adds to the hilarity that everytime I watch her show (which has been very few times) she is always covering the stupidest shit. I remember when that white girl in Bermuda thing was going down, her show was like non-stop coverage about it for months and months.

That's why, despite the fact that they are all indeed useless, Greta Van Sustern rises above the rest as FNC's liberal shitcaster. Bringing you the stories, no one really cares about, but it seems like everyone is talking about.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Paula Zahn: Fart Or Poison?

[Synnical]

7. I don't know who most of those people are

Can't vote. I hate it when that happens!

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale

[k_jerome]

8. that blonde dude on msnbc with the deep voice. nt.

[Orrex]

10. Diane Sawyer gets my vote

She repeatedly uses the most idiotic interview tactic I've ever encountered:

Sawyer: Mr. Bush, did you lie to the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq?

Dubya: Gosh, no!


What does she hope to accomplish by asking such an obvious, ham-fisted, and easily deflected question? Does she really think that, faced with Sawyer's overwhelming presence, the President will crumble and admit his wrong-doing?

And she does the same thing again and again, no matter who she's interviewing and no matter what the circumstances.

Awful. Was she ever an actual journalist?

[kath]

11. So many mediawhores, so little time...

no way to choose just one.

[gravity]

13. The 'They're ALL useless' option is useless

No shit they are all useless, but the question is who is the most useless out of the useless.

Katie Couric is definately my choice

[lpbk2713]

14. Candy COWley

Of CNN.