Matt Yglesias notes that Tom Brokaw goes bird watching with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and notes, “it is striking that you tend not to hear about this sort of coziness between the media and political elites when said media elites are busy posturing as a vast brigade of Woodward and Bernsteins eagerly digging to the truth.”
I had a similar thought last Sunday watching Tim Russert interview Alan Greenspan on MTP. How many times, I wondered, have Greenspan and his wife, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, had Russert over for dinner? In fact, the three were probably headed out to brunch just as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.
Makes you wonder.
Now Playing: Episode 356
The Republican Convention, Fannie and Freddie go bust, and finally, our international news roundup.
Links Mentioned: Europeans try to placate the Russians … details on the bail-out … a brief history of Fannie and Freddie … Mark Schmitt on Obama’s high-risk, high-reward strategy … Biden tears it up on the trail.
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