tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post116800052305938846..comments2024-01-11T07:40:01.736-05:00Comments on The Stopped Clock: The Government We Deserve?Aaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16523334580402022332noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post-1168456843764199582007-01-10T14:20:00.000-05:002007-01-10T14:20:00.000-05:00Sometimes you have to wonder if the media listens ...Sometimes you have to wonder if the media listens to the answer at all. How many times have we heard an interviewer ask a question that was answered just a few minutes before . . . and as you pointed out, how often do we hear them respond to a "non-answer" as if it were an answer.<BR/><BR/>Of course given that the "best media" available tends to be NPR, who aren't very good at all, maybe in addition to wondering if we have the Government we deserve we should give some thought to how we have come to deserve our currently abominable media . . .<BR/><BR/>CWDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5973827.post-1168200127708300092007-01-07T15:02:00.000-05:002007-01-07T15:02:00.000-05:00The compliance of the media, and why politicians a...<I>The compliance of the media, and why politicians aren't called on their deceptive and misleading answers, or their nonanswers to simple questions.</I><BR/><BR/>I don't consider myself a master of cross-examination, but I have wondered about this also. How dim to you have to be not to say "That's not really what I was asking. What I asked was..."<BR/><BR/>Reminds me of Ari Fleischer's comment that there is a difference between <I>responding to</I> a reporter's question and <I>answering</I> a reporter's question.mythagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138471078836187498noreply@blogger.com