It's time to embrace American royalty

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Aug. 31, 2009 (Opinion)

We're obviously hungry to live with royal and aristocratic families so we should really just go ahead and formally declare it:

Bush daughter Jenna Hager becomes 'Today' reporter

NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent — former first daughter Jenna Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush. . . . She "just sort of popped to us as a natural presence, comfortable" on the ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Aug 31, 2009 - 12:08 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Derek Hawkins (review), Leon (review), Dwight Rousu (review)
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Aug 31, 2009 - 9:58 PM PDT

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 31, 2009

Greenwald finds "journalists" being hired for who their daddies are, rather than for their journalistic capabilities.

This decline of journalism is class warfare on anybody with a potential lick of common sense.

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Derek Hawkins
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 by Derek Hawkins - Aug. 31, 2009
Derek posted this story.
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Leon
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 by Leon - Aug. 31, 2009

Not really a good write up at all. The author keeps updating as comments come in, mostly correcting his analogies and logic.

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