Not Ted Koppel’s Nightline By A Long Shot

6:45 pm EST July 16th, 2009 | Media | 6 Comments

I don’t think Ted would have ever interviewed the lawyer of an alleged date rapist with cool jazz and soft-focus camera work. Seriously, WTF ABC?

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6 Responses to “Not Ted Koppel’s Nightline By A Long Shot”

  1. Rudy says:
    July 16, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Serious journalism in America is dead (at least in the mainstream). Has been for a long time.

  2. Sexy date rape segment is ready for Primetime « Peoria Pundit says:
    July 16, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    [...] Hat tip, Oliver Willis. [...]

  3. News Reference says:
    July 16, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    Journalism is “not dead.”

    Journalism is horribly ill, yes, sickly, commercially motivated and confused with trying to be entertainment, yes, but it’s not dead. (Yet.)

    “I don’t want to go on the cart!”

  4. jrfunkenstein says:
    July 16, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    Not only is serious journalism dead, it seems to be in the midst of an extended embalming process.

    The night Jon Stewart told Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala to ‘stop hurting America’ on CNN’s Crossfire, he was officially announcing that the once stalwart program had jumped the shark.

    I believe it was a day later that the 20+ year old show was cancelled.

  5. mark says:
    July 17, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    The piece referencd above was not on Nightline, it was on a magazine show.

  6. News Reference says:
    July 17, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    Despite the “Main Stream Media’s” failures there has been a lot of good journalism that came out of the “MSM”.

    I love the NYT and WaPo and especially http://McClatchyDC.com

    And “serious journalism” is something that comes from a lot of different sources.

    I consider http://MediaMatters.org to be “serious journalism”.

    I consider http://TalkingPointsMemo.com excellent advocacy journalism.

    And many bloggers are fantastic opinion journalists:

    Glen Greenwald, Steve Benen, the folk at http://FireDogLake.com

    “Journalism” is about informing people about what is true and while truth-speakers may not have the loudest megaphones, there is still a lot of them and they are still screaming as loud as they can.