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>On the other hand, when someone demanded, “How could you know what he was thinking?” I always had a simple answer: “I asked.” If someone had grilled Wolfe abou

by TMWNN 2y ago

>On the other hand, when someone demanded, “How could you know what he was thinking?” I always had a simple answer: “I asked.” If someone had grilled Wolfe about The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, they would have learned that everything he reported he had either seen or heard himself, found recorded elsewhere, or learned from people who were there. Relevant: TIL why Tom Wolfe wore a white suit. The pioneer of 'New Journalism' said that the unusual clothing caused others to see him as "a man from Mars, the man who didn't know anything and was eager to know", so talked freely to him. The white suit became Wolfe's trademark from 1962 to his death. <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1inpsa5/til_why_tom_wolfe_wore_a_white_suit_the_pioneer/ https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1inpsa5/til_w...> >During Donald Trump’s first term as president, The Washington Post calculated that he had lied 30,573 times. Yet somehow it was the media who lost the trust of half the nation. The author isn't stupid. She answered the implied question above earlier in her essay, but can't outright say so, so has readers put two and two together with bits like: >There is a sameness in our silos now; I find myself over-careful when I voice any idea that does not conform to the slightly-left-of-center canon where I generally feel most at home. On the other hand, we get stuff like >“You know who’s in charge of Voice of America now?” Wolfe’s purported editor might snap. “Keri Lake, a right-wing election denier who called journalists ‘monsters’ and promised to be our ‘worst nightmare’ back when she ran for governor of Arizona. Trump posted her mandate on social: to ‘ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media.’” Besides the misspelling of Lake's first name, no mention of her having been a broadcast journalist herself for three decades. If Lake calls her colleagues "monsters", maybe she has some basis for said description?

cafard 2y ago
Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else? (And yes, I do apply the same criteria to Dan Rather and his predecessors.)
- TMWNN 2y ago
  > Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else? (And yes, I do apply the same criteria to Dan Rather and his predecessors.) No; the UK "newsreader" has never really had a US equivalent, because the US has never had in-vision continuity which is where UK newsreaders typically came from. Anyone on camera on US television news has in-field reporting/production experience.

by TMWNN 2y ago

cafard 2y ago

Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else? (And yes, I do apply the same criteria to Dan Rather and his predecessors.)

TMWNN 2y ago
> Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else? (And yes, I do apply the same criteria to Dan Rather and his predecessors.) No; the UK "newsreader" has never really had a US equivalent, because the US has never had in-vision continuity which is where UK newsreaders typically came from. Anyone on camera on US television news has in-field reporting/production experience.