There appears to be only one time when journalists on the left and right unite and that's when one of their own is in harms way. Shepherd "Sissy Boy" Smith did it yesterday on Fox News. He was reporting on the number of threats to life and limb of all the Walter Winchell wannabes in Egypt. Shep was near tears in his reporting. It took me back to when he was in his beloved Mississippi post Katrina when there were real croc tears streaming down his cheeks as he reported on the devastation.
Think about this; is it really necessary for some dude with a microphone to be surround by a thousand bin Laden look alikes and expose himself to imminent death to let us know the people are rioting? Why do we have satellites? The scenario would go like this for me if I chose to be stupid: "Lizzie, I'll be home in an hour. I'm going down into the cobra pit to read a book then I'll jump over to the lion's den to get some sun. Don't hold dinner".
Way back when there was a newscaster on WHO radio Des Moines named Jack Shelly.*** He sat in a studio and his voice, ever so elegant and professional, gave us the news through the mind's eye. He did a much better job than the Lester Holt's of today and long before we'd ever heard of or needed female eye candy to make the news come to life.
***Mr. Shelley is the second most famous person to come out of Boone, Iowa after Mamie Eisenhower. This shoves MJ Hawkeye down to number 4. I stand corrected.
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