Interviewing 11-year-old Scholastic News reporter Jack Greenberg shortly before 3 p.m. EDT, MSNBC's David Shuster asked the junior journalist whether he had any problem being skeptical -- sorta like Lee Cowan? -- of the people he interviews. Greenberg answered [audio available here]:
I try to stay objective through all my work. I try to do my best not to keep a political opinion, because as a journalist I always try to balance it out with what is on the other side.
Shuster then asked if Greenberg ever asked any leading questions, or if he knew "how to do that."
I always press them for like, if like a candidate makes an accusation about them, I'll have them give like their side of the story, because that's important to journalism, how you always get two sides. There's two sides to every story.
(h/t e-mail tipster Brian)
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And then Shuster stared at him in a
August 26, 2008 - 18:43 ET by JTPquizzical manner......
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JTP
August 27, 2008 - 03:01 ET by DoktorFrankenYou got that right. Plus, all of the MSNBC staff were scrambling to search the Internet and whatever dictionaries they had handy to find out what that strange, new word, Objective, meant.
MSNBC schooled today
August 26, 2008 - 18:44 ET by BlondeFirst Joe Scarborough takes Keefe to school, then Shuster attends J-School, where the clearly superior teacher is an eleven year old.
Beautiful.
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Hannity was right. 2008
August 26, 2008 - 18:48 ET by Free StinkerHannity was right.
2008 will be known as the year the MSM officially "died".
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What the intelligent young
August 26, 2008 - 18:50 ET by bigtimerWhat the intelligent young man said to Shuster went right over his head along with the rest of his ilk.
Maybe there is hope for the future yet with examples like young Greenberg.
As they say...hope springs eternal.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
There's only hope if.....
August 26, 2008 - 21:11 ET by pbthinkerThere's only hope if, like Russert, the kid skips journalism school, and works around it enough to become a reporter, without the school. If he goes to journalism school, he'll end up like the rest of these schmucks.
Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.
Wow, there is hope for
August 26, 2008 - 18:55 ET by Clear thinkerWow, there is hope for mankind afterall!
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I try to stay objective
August 26, 2008 - 19:14 ET by SMGalbraithI try to stay objective through all my work.
Yeah, well don't leave your resume at MSNBC, son.
Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World:
Jack Greenberg!
SMG... ROFL! That hit
August 26, 2008 - 19:19 ET by bigtimerSMG...
ROFL!
That hit the nail on the head.
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David Shuster and all of
August 26, 2008 - 19:16 ET by DaBirdDavid Shuster and all of MSNBC schooled by an 11 year old on journalism. Classic.
We knew it would happen
August 26, 2008 - 19:22 ET by general companyWe knew it would happen sooner then later
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
huh? whaaa.....
August 26, 2008 - 20:05 ET by ammo johnShuster was distracted from the interview while playing with his Obama sock puppet.
Meet my new best buddy, Jack Greenberg.
August 26, 2008 - 23:08 ET by thebobboMeet my new best buddy, Jack Greenberg.
Instead of going to journalism school, he should probably be teaching it. Shuster probably thought he was doing a puff piece til the kid opened his mouth and handed him a lesson in Journalistic Ethics 101. A class that Shuster and most of his colleagues obviously skipped.
Well, he's eleven, and he has plenty of years to get jaded or corrupted before he makes it into primetime. But doesn't it give you the slightest bit of hope that journalism ain't dead in '08?
For what it's worth, jaded me wrote the epitaph on objective journalism back in '92 when 60 Minutes gave the sleazeball Clintons a forum to spin their oh-so-happy marriage in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. I never really cared whether he had affairs or not (except when he lied about one under oath), but the complete failure of 60 Minutes and the other news outlets at the time to call into question his integrity, character, and moral authority to lead this nation, was the beginning of the end for journalistic ethics.
Nonetheless let's keep the spotlight on Jack. Keep the faith, my friend, and remember that Keith Olbermann is only a figment of your imagination.
O.M.G.
August 27, 2008 - 10:19 ET by I.am.DILLIGAFan 11yr old kid with a brain who would a thunk?? Now if the rest of the so called journalests would not only hear what he said but listen to what he said then maybe just maybe they could figure it out too. My hat is off to this intelligent and articulet KID hope he actually makes it and keeps up the schooling of the OLD ones
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