David Shuster filling in for Mathews on Hardball

[SoFlaJet]

this guy is REALLY good-what a pleasure to actually get questions asked without that smarmy smirk and know-it-all-ism that Tweety usually gives.You don't get the sense of bias-even though the questions that get asked bring out truth which we all know the republicans hate.

[Stinky The Clown]

1. Sparkly and I said pretty much the same thing .....

.... his interview with Carter was the cat's pajamas. Well done and in a way that was repsectful and that allowed Jimmy to finish his thoughts.

[eleny]

2. It's been a spittle-free zone tonight, too

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

3. Article about David Shuster here (from 10/2005)

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2005/10/02/column.1002-SH-A3_CMK35541.sto

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2005/10/02/bb_shuster_10+Z_tc.jpg

<snip>

He went on to recount his six-year tenure at Fox. "At the time I started at Fox, I thought, this is a great news organization to let me be very aggressive with a sitting president of the United States (Bill Clinton)," Shuster said. "I started having issues when others in the organization would take my carefully scripted and nuanced reporting and pull out bits and pieces to support their agenda on their shows. "With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing," he said.

"Editorially, I had issues with story selection," Shuster went on. "But the bigger issue was that there wasn't a tradition or track record of honoring journalistic integrity. I found some reporters at Fox would cut corners or steal information from other sources or in some cases, just make things up. Management would either look the other way or just wouldn't care to take a closer look. I had serious issues with that."

The Bloomington native encountered a markedly different culture when he jumped to NBC/MSNBC in June 2002. "One of the first things that happens is you're given a 50-page manual of standards and practices … and you immediately sense this is an organization that cares very deeply about journalistic integrity."

Would the former Bloomingtonian like to sit in Matthews' chair some day? "I'm only 38 years old, and it's not something I'm focusing on right now, but I'm sure that some day, NBC will see, in their wisdom, such a place for David Shuster," he said with a laugh. He acknowledged that likely never would have happened at Fox, a network that neither his father, Arnold Shuster, nor his mother, Susan Klein, supported. "My parents always wondered why it took me so long to get out of there," he said. "I wonder, too."

<snip>