David Folkenflik, Destined For The Broadcasting Hall Of Fame
August 25, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Why should Americans everywhere rejoice David Folkenflik, rather than, say, Michael Phelps or Joe Biden?
Because of sensational, insightful, and entrepreneurial reporting like this in his NPR.org column “Media Circus”:
I’d like to suggest that it’s time we judge outlets by what they actually do rather than the means by which they arrive. Do they make you smarter? Challenge your assumptions? Reveal things you didn’t know? Help you evaluate candidates and parties more shrewdly?
Take The Politico. It provides well-reported dispatches by and for Washington insiders and political junkies. Extreme Mortman provides the musings of a funny conservative. The TPMMuckraker is liberal, but it does real reporting.
Here’s a picture of the American treasure, and for once we don’t mean ourselves…
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