Christopher Hitchens on Journalism and Media Bias (1983 - Part 4)

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[ryanlk]

@nemirn stop being a conspiracy theorist, this is news/information that the average american will never watch or care about and that is why no major corporation has to worry about it!!!!!!!

[fomastephanovitch]

Liberal publications aren't sceptical anymore that's for sure!

[jimmbo13]

Does he keep calling Brian Lamb, David, as he has now done twice.

I think I remember Brian kidding him about this when the two watched the footage 27 years later.

On a side note, Brian Lamb is such a great host for Hitchens, compared to others like CHarlie Rose, who interrupt a tad too much

[benehan]

Its remarkable that Hitchens managed to become a popular figure when he seems to have told a significant proportion of Americans and Brits that they are straight up wrong

[lafontaine13]

his mind is sharp...even as a young man

[Orly83]

RIP



[mygeneration01]

Does it appear to anyone else that Hitch is drinking wine (or something definitely not coffee haha) and doodling while the idiots babble?

He's the fucking man.

[pawndominance1]

all the republicans just do what their corporate interests tell them to do, and so do the dems but there is a small portion of the DEMOCRATS that actually look to help everyday Americans. They are 'radical' leftist though--:O omg! Watch out, they'll gonna come and take your guns!! AHHHHHH