Tom Brokaw's World Implodes

Tom Brokaw had a long career. Unfortunately, I think he may have stayed a bit too long. Sitting as the "dean" of televison journalism today might not be the gig it was at one time. I doubt very much if it will ever be that, again. But then, AmSpec might have done well to include a link to Jim Hoft's site as I've added, too.

With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.

Sitting cheek by jowl with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Brokaw joined him to riff on the Internet and the state of journalism today, an opportunity occasioned by the resignation of Van Jones, he of the Truther brigades (and much more) and the Obama White House. Mr. Jones' resignation was prompted by a virtual parade of videos and documents in which Jones, in his own words and deeds, presented himself as an overripe Marxist with a tendency to the nutty paranoia of the extreme left. This material was discovered by Fox commentator Glenn Beck, doubtless with an assist from citizens who had scanned the Internet, easily unearthing Jones' ravings. One in particular was Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit.

Comments

[gary gulrud]

Brokaw's speech sounds slurred, little stroke perhaps?

[Lisa Graas]

Wow. That's an awesome piece at The American Spectator.

[mark l.]

tom brokaw couldn't carry ted koppel's sweaty jock strap.

[K]

The network news at the older networks can be rebuilt. But not unless they are honest and work their butts off to collect, analyze, and report about things that matter.

There is no reason to expect that to happen. They must believe there is a magic and effortless way to fool all of the people all of the time. For that is what ninety percent of them keep trying.

And several days each week that number is one hundred percent.