So Brian Stelter, normally a pretty good Cable Gamer, runs a piece in the New York Times on Judge Andrew Napolitano's new show on Fox Business Network, including a great quote from Lew Rockwell of the Von Mises Institute:
Lew Rockwell, the chairman of the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute and, like Mr. Hornberger, a regular guest on Mr. Napolitano’s webcasts, said he considered “Freedom Watch” to be “the most important libertarian broadcast in the history of the American media.”
But then Stelter spoils it by including a gratuitous and unsubstantial a dig from ex-everything liberal hack Bill Press, deriding FBN as mere "propaganda."
Stelter didn't get a quote from FBN, which he should have. Maybe he was in a hurry, maybe he was lazy, but either way, he should have held his story till he had a reaction from Fox. (Don't go down that sloppy Calderone political road, Brian!)
But Talking Biz News, a project at the University of North Carolina J-School, did get a great quote from FN on the hapless Press:
If anyone is familiar with being a ratings killer, it’s Bill Press, who hasn’t been able to maintain a steady hosting job on television since being dumped by CNN in 2002 and having his show canceled by MSNBC in 2003.
Pow! Or should I say, in the spirit of the Bill Press Ratings Massacre, bwwwawww!
The h/t, of course, goes to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," a film that I will never admit I have never watched all the way through with my eyes open. But that's my play on Press--unless, of course, a Cable Gamer can do better!
