>I received an email tip about this so went and yanked it off the trusty Red Lasso. Anyway, Hannity shows a clip of Earhart parachuting and says something about her being slightly injured.. suppose to update it tomorrow on Hannity’s America.
>If the video is blank, try this direct link.
Via Baltimore Sun
NBC correspondent to Bush: Become a diplomat
by Aamer Madhani
One of the most interesting anecdotes in NBC Iraq correspondent Richard Engel’s new book didn’t take place on the streets of Baghdad but in the Oval Office.
In February 2007, weeks after President Bush announced his plans for the troop buildup in Iraq, Engel, one of the longest serving Western correspondents in Iraq, received an out-of-the-blue invitation to sit down with President Bush, Engel writes in the recently published “War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq.”
NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert warned him to use caution in his off-camera meeting with the president. “Don’t tell them anything you wouldn’t broadcast…You want to make sure you stay a reporter.”
But by Engel’s account, he offered the President a surprising amount of analysis, commentary and advice.
>Read the rest at Baltimore Sun.
Via LAT
Is Olbermann’s snide act on MSNBC the future of TV news?
By Howard Rosenberg
Former Times Television Critic Howard Rosenberg, a Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism in 1985, will be writing occasional commentaries about news on television and the Internet.
It seems like a couple of centuries since His Holiness Pope Walter reigned as God’s deputy on the airwaves. Even longer if you think about leave-’em-laughing funnyman Keith Olbermann.
The leer, the smug histrionics, the relentless needling, the shameless self-puffery, the accusatory rants excoriating Bushies and other Republicans as well as cable competitor Fox and its temperamental bully, Bill O’Reilly. And, of course, the comedy.
“Countdown With Keith Olbermann” is the bean ball between “Hardball With Chris Matthews” and “Verdict With Dan Abrams” in MSNBC’s weekday lineup. This trio has spent the election season heckling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from deep inside Sen. Barack Obama’s hip pocket and hammering Sen. John McCain since Day One.
>Read the rest at LAT.
