Not Exactly On Paar

Parr

Novakgone

A lot of people have had a lot to say about "Plame Game" commentator Robert Novak walking off a CNN set last week. From a visual standpoint, what I found disturbing was how the NYT Week in Review equated it to Jack Parr walking off the Tonight Show set 45 years ago.

Besides trivializing the real story — which involves Novak colluding with the government to mislead the American public about the Iraqi threat — the comparison basically writes off Mr. Novak’s journalistic behavior (and his increasing trouble in justifying it) as simply "show biz."

In Paar’s case, he decided to bolt because censors deleted an off-color joke he wanted to tell. As far as I can tell, the only element the two situations share is the size of the egos involved.

(image 1: CNN. August 4, 2005. From mediamatters.org. image 2: Walter Daran/Time Life Pictures — Getty Images in NYT. August 7, 2005. p. WK 2.)

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Brilliant connection!
pjr

Ye Gods are they serious? There’s anything even remotely similar about these two disparate events? That’s it people; the Blogosphere has officially supplanted MSM as THE voice of journalism.
The king is dead. Long live The King.
lytom

NYT’s attempt to “interpret” for the viewers is following pattern all mainstream media do.
Instead of seriously questioning Novak’s motivation in his reports on Iraq and his criminally improper and unproffesional exposure of Palme, NYT is right there fogging the view. How uncharacteristic and how ironic that some people still consider NYT objective in its reporting!
treepeony

Novak’s body language, tone of voice, and other evidence do not suggest anger, outrage, or even exasperation beyond his routine belligerance. Who else has made a better living from routine belligerance, his own and others? He has made a profession of tolerating whatever comes and dishing it back. I think he planned and staged the walk-off to avoid questions about Plame.
treepeony

Novak’s body language, tone of voice, and other evidence do not suggest anger, outrage, or even exasperation beyond his routine belligerance. Who else has made a better living from routine belligerance, his own and others? He has made a profession of tolerating whatever comes and dishing it back. I think he planned and staged the walk-off to avoid questions about Plame.
treepeony

Novak’s body language, tone of voice, and other evidence do not suggest anger, outrage, or even exasperation beyond his routine belligerance. Who else has made a better living from routine belligerance, his own and others’? He has made a profession of tolerating whatever comes and dishing it back. I think he planned and staged the walk-off to avoid questions about Plame.