Items of Interest

~ How Fox News books people to appear on show, paraphrased:

We need someone to come say that Obama's cocky and his cockiness is going to hurt him.

Oh, not interested? Okay. We also need someone to come on Neil's show and say that Hillary can't be trusted.

Michael Smerconish shares his emails with Fox News producer. Ahh... nothing like "Fair & Balanced".

~ Michael Scherer posted Obama's response to a foreign policy query at his Trinidad press conference with this comment.

...[it] reads to me as just about the clearest, most succinct statement yet of Obama's diplomatic approach (with a little editing).

He's right. Go read it yourself. It's so nice to have a grownup who does nuance and outreach in charge again.

~ And speaking of Obama, Mark Halperin who isn't usually an Obama fan put up a post titled "Why Obama is Exceptionally Good at His Job". He makes some good points.

~ This should be very interesting. Nick Bauman points out that the awarding of a Pulitzer Prize to NYT's David Barstow for his investigative story on "former military officials who were organized by the Pentagon to cheerlead for Bush administration war policies as "analysts" on cable television" creates a new threshold for the news organizations that relied on those analysts and ignored the original story.

~ I didn't know this about Tom Friedman. File this under learn something new everyday and wonder how this influences his journalistic endeavors.