Tom brokaw: ‘impressed with the quality of research’ at breitbart

[Revmitchell]

In a new interview, legendary modern journalist Tom Brokaw praised Breitbart News for the in depth research undergirding its reportage and noted that too many news outlets today seem to draw conclusions before facts are in.

Filling in for Michael DelGiorno on 99.7 FM WWTN‏ in Nashville, Breitbart’s own Michael P. Leahy, who has had a long friendship with the famed NBC journalist, interviewed Brokaw this week about his new book, “A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope.” The NBC anchor’s new book tells the story of his recent medical scare and the drama and introspection that the incident brought him.

As the book’s blurb notes, Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate life. As a bestselling author with twenty-two years as anchor of the NBC Nightly News and his stature as one of the nation’s most respected journalists, he stands head and shoulders above many of his colleagues in the news business. But two years ago, back pain led him to the doctors at the Mayo Clinic, where he received shocking news: He had multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer. As Brokaw notes, “It turns out that star has a dimmer switch.”

Michael Patrick Leahy has been corresponding with the famed journalist for several years, and it is a relationship that Brokaw says he has come to cherish.

Brokaw had kind words, not just for his friend Leahy, who works as a long-time Breitbart correspondent, but for Breitbart News itself.

As the interview wound down, Leahy asked Brokaw what he thought about Breitbart News.

“First of all because of our relationship I have been very impressed with the quality of research that you do,” Brokaw said. “Whenever a story breaks and I hear from you, it’s very clear that the team with you–that you work with–has done a first rate job of getting down to the bottom of whatever is going on and backing it up with hard facts.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/09/21/tom-brokaw-praises-breitbart-interview/

 

[poncho]

Rather than review all that has been said, and left unsaid, in the past few days, I will simply perform the service of providing the transcript of an interview that has gotten some attention via a video at the MSNBC site, but never quoted in full due to the lack of a transcript. It deserves full study.

It features current NBC anchor Brian Williams interviewing former anchor Tom Brokaw (he was still in that seat when we went to war) two nights ago. Brokaw's bankrupt arguments could stand as Exhibit A in the media's continuing failure to admit complicity in the human, financial, and moral disaster that is the Iraq war.

Consider just a few elements. Brokaw says, "But this president was determined to go to war. It was more theology than it was anything else. It was pretty hard to deal with." So hard that the media didn't even try hard to deal with the 'theology." NBC and others chose to focus on the evidence of WMD rather than the evidence that the administration was simply bent on going to war, WMD or not.

Brokaw, to make light of McClellan's charges, also declares that all wars are based on propaganda. He even mentions World War II. For Brokaw, who has embraced the notion of that being the good war, to put the Iraq invasion in the same class is outrageous. There is a huge difference between admitting that there is a propaganda element to every war and pointing out that certain wars are mainly based on propaganda and that a country has been misled, or lied, into war. Surely, Brokaw doesn't think FDR hyped the Japanese and German threat or was hellbent on war.

Continue . . . http://editorandpublisher.com/PrintArticle/Tom-Brokaw-s-Disturbing-Defense-of-the-Media-and-Iraq

So let me get this straight Tom Brokaw an admitted war propagandist and cover up artist is supposed to be a credible character reference for a publication that has been pushing the fear based neocon narrative since the death of Andrew James Breitbart? :laugh: Sorry Rev couldn't help myself. :laugh: