For anyone who hates PBS’ The Newshour (like I do), Alexander Cockburn has reprinted the sharp and very funny critique of the show he did for an issue of Harper’s in 1982. For me, watching the show has always resulted in a (one-way) shouting match with the television (or radio), which a housemate once thought my funniest trait. Cockburn emphasizes the show’s blandness and tediousness (partly by creating three parody segments, including a “debate” between a Roman legal expert and Simon Peter on the need to crucify Christ because he’s a troublemaker) noting: Trudging back through the ‘MacNeil/ Lehrer’ scripts, … Continue reading Elite Information