Quote of the Day
You know what? Michael Moore is right. There are many Americans who are ignorant of the world around them. And they’re all TV news producers. Two big bombs in Istanbul, and what’s the big story of the day? Following around a pervy slab of albino Play-Doh as he turns himself into the police. I was stunned to discover last night that Nightline not only covered the Jackson case in detail, but bumped coverage of the Whitehall speech, which was the most important speech since the Iraq campaign began and arguably the most important speech of the war, period. -- James Lileks, The Bleat, 11/21/03
Be sure to read the rest of
today's Bleat. Lileks is dumbfounded that the producers of ABC's Nightline admitted in an email to the show's fans that they were "evenly split" in deciding the main topic for last night's show: the Michael Jackson arrest or the war on terrorism and Bush's Whitehall speech.
Guess which one they chose.
Good guess.
