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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-10 03:27 AM
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64. What gets me is
I am a reporter. I've worked as a civic politics reporter in a major city. And you know who I've NEVER seen at press conferences, on the streets talking to people or anything? Bloggers and commentators. Most of them have no worth as far as I'm concerned because they have no access. They just read what actual journalists write and then form an opinion and call it news gathering.

To this DAY, though I'm now based in Beijing, I can call anyone of my old connections and get an inside scoop, a leaked document...etc because I've built relationships with the people who are doing things.

You think Cenk can get into a white house press conference? Nope, you think Cenk gets phonecalls back from senators to have guarded conversations about backroom shit? Nope.

So why the hell would he have anything interesting to say?
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