Feed The “Meet the Press” Regulars To The Wolves

Enough with the cult of Tim Russert and toss the trodden talking heads of Sunday morning to the wolves, cries Jack Shafer from Slate’s press box department. It’s an excellent and provocative rant about Meet the Press and David Gregory, not to mention a well-timed screed when the buzz is all about re-thinking television from the ground up. ” Who hasn’t heard enough from James Carville and Mary Matalin by now?,” Shafer crescendos. “Hasn’t plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin run out of gas? Doesn’t William Safire phone it in? Can’t NBC do the right thing and give Andrea Mitchell her own show? And why does the mere sight of David Broder, Bob Shrum, E.J. Dionne, or Peggy Noonan on television make me want to kill myself?”