Elegy For A Rubber Stamp

Harper's by Lewis H. Lapham | Aug. 24, 2008 (Opinion)

Long ago in the days before journalists became celebrities, their enterprise was reviled and poorly paid, and it was understood by working newspapermen that the presence of more than two people at their funeral could be taken as a sign that they had disgraced the profession.

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Roland F. Hirsch
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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic merit. A highly selective set of very short quotations are provided with no context. There is nothing else. The author is entitled to his opinions, but the piece does not demonstrate that they are more valid than those of any of the other 300,000,000 Americans about Mr Russert because there is no substance to back up the opinions.

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