The interview allowed clinton to summarize the library's clinton revision, the newly unveiled veiled clinton legacy, if you will, even as it allowed Jennings to pose as a real journalist by giving him the opportunity to ask the questions central to the clinton library conceit.... (A real journalist would have demanded the answers.)
It's unclear to me, however, whether Jennings probed a bit more deeply on the moral authority-legacy-presidential poll thing than he was supposed to....
I will be deconstructing the ABC-Jennings interview a la BBC-Dimbleby.
WHAT? NO JUANITA WING?
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i respect your opinion on this and would like to know what you come up with..
and i'm sticking to my theory : )
besides Bill Moyer, i think Jennings is the most dangerous tv talking head. Rather is a baffoon and not taken all that seriously.. and Moyer's is so obviously biased .... but - Jennings has got good at the unbiased act since 9/11. there have been slips on his part.. but hard to catch. he's a dangerous man... far more sneaky then any other old media figure head .. and lots of power within ABC.
i would be really interested in what you come up with..
Mia - another thing about the Clinton/Jennings interview was the OBL part.. this was set up so Clinton could say he had no chance of getting OBL while he was POTUS.. did you catch that? he mentioned how he got right after checking into the "rumors" that he had a chance and failed.. and all i could think of was Sandy Berger.. files missing. He checked into it all right.. he got people on it all right. he made sure he got rid of anything about it. Jennings was limp about this too... why didn't Jennings ask the obvious - Berger?.. who put him up to it? .. it was all an act.