College Freshman Attacks Media Elites: allbillnobull.net

Bill Glucroft, then a multimedia journalism freshman at Emerson College in Boston, attended a forum at the JFK Library titled, "What's Wrong with the Media?" The two-person panel consisted of Ben Bradlee, vice president of the Washington Post and editor during the Watergate investigation, and Don Hewitt, the creator of the CBS newsmagazine, 60 Minutes.

During the Q&A, Bill asked what he thought was a benign question: even after the mainstream media's apology for its uncritical coverage leading up to the Iraq war, there still didn't appear to be any tangible difference in the way news was being reported.

Bradlee went off, attacking the very premise of the question, thereby unwittingly symbolizing everything that is wrong with current mainstream media.

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[ooxcfhxoo]

@tremontirocks  I agree.

[tremontirocks]

Christ. You guys are friggin' idiots. That old guy up there is Ben fucking Bradlee. Guy helped bring down Nixon for Christ sakes. That kid is complaining why newspapers aren't taking activist positions on the war. He's telling the kid the only reason you know what you're talking about is because you read it in a goddamn newspaper! Idiots, all of you.

[BirdlandBeat]

evasiveness, circumlocution, self-satisfied, self-contradictory; any more questions?

[Mazz1916]

No wonder our media is horrible. Listen to these idiots.

[djancak]

why am i just now seeing this?

[vivienj007]

that freshy was a BALLER!