Best quote from "Real Time"

[Atman]

Gloria Steinhem said "There are two kinds of people in the world; those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those of us who don't."

There was one other full-on belly laugher towards the end, but I thought GS's comment said it all!

[EFerrari]

1. This hurts but it's funny: Who's running your campaign, FEMA?

lol

[Rowdyboy]

16. To me, that was the best line of the night, re John Kerry....

[EFerrari]

18. John Kerry needs to fire EVERYONE who has ever worked for him.

[NMDemDist2]

2. nope, it was when McKeenan said "and the Hilter youth"

the crowd didn't get it and I don't even think Bill got it but it was hilarious!

[babylonsister]

3. Steinhem applauding Couric surprised me for various reasons. nt

[MadMaddie]

4. I think she genuinely want to give Katie a chance to prove

herself before passing judgement.....I have always liked Gloria...

[Nite Owl]

5. That got me too

and she said she needs a better writer. That in itself was sort of anti womam, do we look at someone like Keith after one of his speeches and say he had a good writer? It seems clear it comes from his heart not just his head or a good staff. Katy may have done ok on the am show but just because she's a woman she shouldn't be getting a pass for fluffin' up the news.

[question everything]

7. When they talked how the news people used to complain about

not enough time - only 22 minutes for news, I got an idea:

After ABC ran the 9/11 docudrama without commercials, I thought that it would be nice if all the main networks - the one with half hour dedicated to news - should decide that these programs are community services and run them without commercials.

They can always get more from the "reality" shows.

[Eric J in MN]

8. I don't think ABC was really trying to provide a public service.

I think they intended to run "The Path to 9/11" with commercials, but after we made it clear to them how controversial it was, they decided to protect their sponsors from our angry emails by running it without commercials.

[question everything]

11. Agree. But it was that bit of trivia that led me to suggest

that the half hour news "shows" should be commercial free..

[Eric J in MN]

9. It would be a good idea if the networks did the Evening News

...as a commercial-free public service, aiming at quality instead of ratings.

[Nite Owl]

10. It would also free them

from corporations telling them what they will sponsor and what they won't. They might acutally investigate the big oil companies etc. if they aren't sponsoring the program. Maybe someday, not while we have this administration.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Our best hope for a TV newscast with no corporate sponsorship...

...is for "The Real News" to debut in September 2007.

We can sign up for the email list at:
http://www.iwtnews.com/join

[Nite Owl]

14. Thanks for that link,

this is exciting. I hope their will be access to the programs. Link TV was mentioned but for those of us with cable I hope they find a home. Bookmarked it and signed up for the updates.

[Eric J in MN]

15. Do you have broadband? They're planning to also put it on the web. NT

NT

[Nite Owl]

17. Yes, I do

but it would reach so many more if they were on tv. I hardly watch the thing but most still do.

[Eric J in MN]

20. They would like to be on cable as free on-demand channel...

...but no cable companies have agreed to that yet (as far as IWT has informed us.)

[babylonsister]

13. Or, they know each other and Steinham knows Couric's politics.

It's not conceivable to me that Couric has been that stifled, but... :shrug:

[WhiteTara]

19. they all have writers. The heads tweak

I'm sure KO wrote his own commentary, but others write his news.

[question everything]

6. And if you wondered about his comment about Idiocracy

read more here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=235154

[Stardust]

21. Excuse my ignorance, but I didn't get it. Sounded like a circular

reference. Was she being ironic? enigmatic? :shrug: