Christopher Hitchens. Hunter S. Thompson. Georgie Anne Geyer. Say what you will about these legendary American journalists, but they were not boring.
Their kind has since disappeared from our media landscape, to be replaced by the likes of narcoleptic Andrea Mitchell, dear-Lord-is-he-still-talking-about-nothing Joe Scarborough, and cipher Taylor Lorenz.“Never mistake motion for action,” Ernest Hemingway, another great, nonboring journalist, once said. On Twitter, on 24/7 cable TV, in the newspaper, and on websites, there is a lot of frantic motion but not much action.
Yet somehow, these journalists have weaseled their way into positions of status. Their debutante is the White House Correspondents' Dinner, better known as Nerd Prom. Reading descriptions of the event, you’d think these journalists have to spend their days running from the paparazzi. Here’stake: “Tamara Keith, who serves as president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, acknowledges that most people tune in for the red-carpet celebrity spotting and the evening’s entertainment.
She’s never worked anywhere else, although she did spend some time in Middle America: “I’ve spent most of my career outside of the bubble, or at least outside of the Beltway, covering agriculture communities and environmental issues in the Central Valley. Sometimes I feel like it’s a disadvantage, because I’m not as fully immersed in the culture that is Washington, and sometimes I feel very lucky that I went on a date at Walmart when I was in high school.
Roger Daltrey, the singer for the Who, once said that when you hear his band, you know “it’s something with blood pumping through its veins.” Who in the media today has blood pumping through their veins? Chuck Todd? Hold a mirror under his nose — see if he’s breathing.
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