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Good read - thanks for the link. I guess the really sad thing, almost heartbreaking, is that Rich Little does really crappy blog imitations. It will make the annual dinner kind of sad:
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Little: Show of hands, who wants to see my Thinkprogress imitation? Anyone?
Uh, wait, here look - Orange Tie - guess which blog this is?
Ok, umm, see - I'm running, out of breath, puffing and --- comeon, I know at least one of you knows this one. Don't you?
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You never seem to see Jane Mayer, Dana Priest and Helen Thomas etc. crying over blogs.
No kidding Mary. REAL journalists aren't complaining because deep down I think they are glad to actually do their job as the fourth estate.
I have some sympathy for journalists for their dilemma - they answer to their editors who answer to the publishers, so they really have only limited control over the stories they are permitted to work on, and the slant they may be forced to portray.
I also think that, like anyone who works for "the man" and has to toe the company line, a reporter would have to rationalize the compromises he is pressured to make, in order to preserve his own self-image and sanity.
Hey Hopey - "thanks a million!" as my mom, LittleBlackDressPhone, would say.
And Mary - I do impersonations too, though they're not always as "clean" as Rich Little's.
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