These days Tom Shales blasts anything that was not originally filmed in black and white before a live studio audience, so I hesitate to pass along his comments, except when he agrees with me.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/01/AR2010080102551.html?hpid=artslot Wait -- so In Memoriam is no longer ending with a list of U.S. servicemen and women who have died? That's bogus. ====== AIM/Gmail Chat: damonbeau www.facebook.com/damonbeau www.twitter.com/damonbeau On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:55, danny burstein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010, [email protected] wrote: > > [snip] > > > Not trying to be mean. I think Amanpour is great at what she does, and I >> would have loved to see a world politics/policy program coupled with a >> domestic one on Sunday mornings. But I do think that it's not to much to >> ask of ABC (or any of the networks) to devote one hour a week to the inner >> workings of Washington, and either this show is going to stray from that >> focus... or the host is going to be someone who has not spent the past 20 >> years building up the kind of detailed knowledge that Tim Russert (or, for >> that matter, David Gregory -- or Jake Tapper!) had. >> > > Not to mention Snuffy, or The Ted [Koppel]. > > And... I did watch it. And was disppointed. She had > on San Fran Nan followed by Sec. of Defense Gates. > > Softballed them all. > > This despite the NY Times' Allessandra "more NYTimes 'Corrections' > than, it seems, anyone else [a]" Stanley's paen to her which features > the headline "A TV Host Challenges a Guest. That's News". > > Methinks Ms. Stanley watched a different show from the one > I saw. > > [a] http://www.cjr.org/regret_the_error/wrong_wrong_wrong_wrong_wrong.php > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_Stanley > http://www.nytpick.com/2009/08/how-does-alessandra-stanley-get-to-keep.html > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/arts/television/02watch.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "World News Now Discussion List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <wnndl%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
