Comments on: Tim Russert, Meet the Problem

By: David Westling

David Westling — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:44:15 +0000

I was beginning to think that this point of view did not exist except inside of my head. But then that is how the media machine works these days. Do we who wish to maintain an autonomous point of view have even a ghost of a chance in the wake of the bizarre syndrome of denial which fueled the run-up to the Iraq war? Only the more radical forays of the Young Hegelians, progenitor of the Frankfurter School, have the concentrated power to solve the frozen controls impelling us to catastrophe.

By: susan

susan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:46:25 +0000

You hit the nail on the head…oh, I see Don said that as well!
It takes people like you guys to wake us up. Us, meaning the people who don’t really pay as much attention as we should or think things through. I’m so glad to have friends like you both!

By: Don Bay

Don Bay — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:05:35 +0000

You hit the target dead center. While the man may have been a loving family man, liked by his coworkers and nice to his dog, he was a toady to the Bush administration and unfit to be called a real journalist. The reader comments on his death published by the New York Times contained a number of favorable comparisons with Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. I had to work hard to control my gag reflex. Russert and his ilk are a major reason the United States is in the sorry shape it is today.