I was in Connecticut visiting my mom over the weekend and happened to catch a glimpse of the tanned and attractive Brian Williams (or, to be fair, his tanned and attractive doppelganger - I didn't confirm his id) shopping in the dairy section of a grocery store in my hometown. My mom and my kids couldn't have cared less and I mean that literally but I was pretty excited for a minute there. After all, I was within shouting distance of the man who gave us this ponderful philosomaphising:
You could already argue that the internet - that now if you have a modem and an opinion, in many cases, you're a journalist. And is the internet good or bad for the discourse? Is it making us feifdoms of one in our own homes with our computers? Is it counter to the idea of the town square approach to journalism that a lot of us believe the founders both of the nation and of journalism had in mind? Part of my job is to ask questions so I'll leave you with those to ponder.
And these deep thoughts:
"You're going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem, and a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work, and now I'm up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn't left the efficiency apartment in two years."
And, of course, my favorite example of the skills he developed to cover his field of work, this:
I would have said hello since we're fellow bloggers, but I had left my bathrobe at home in the efficiency and I didn't want to blow his mind.
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