Richard Gizbert

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Richard Gizbert hosts The Listening Post, the media watch broadcast on al Jazeera English. He has spent 25 years in television journalism, including eleven years as a London based correspondent for ABC News. He plays hockey and guitar, equally badly.

Blog Entries by Richard Gizbert

The Ho-Hum Obama Revolution

189 Comments | Posted May 21, 2008 | 10:18 AM (EST)


To watch and read the media coverage this week of the democratic race for the White House, one would conclude that the results of the Oregon and Kentucky primaries were the big news.

However, there was another event that said more about where things stand than the vote counting...

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Hillary's $6.4 Million is a Wise Investment, for 2012

126 Comments | Posted May 7, 2008 | 06:06 PM (EST)


This is not really a case, as some have suggested, of throwing good money after bad.

Hillary Clinton's decision to dump another $6.4 million into her lifeless campaign actually makes an odd and devious kind of sense. Because for her the end game is no longer November, it's 2012....

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On Kristol, the NYT and Missing the Point

Posted January 2, 2008 | 07:18 PM (EST)


It's not like I'm a fan of the guy.

My personal opinion of William Kristol, the latest addition to the New York Times' op-ed roster, is along the lines of what the leftie media-watch blogosphere has been saying about his hiring.

Kristol has a lot to answer...

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London Calling: Memo to Hillary Supporters -- Tell It Like It Really Is

Posted September 30, 2007 | 05:42 PM (EST)


I have a favor to ask of some of you Hillary Clinton supporters, particularly the females among you. And you are legion.

For once, I'd just like to hear one of you say something along these lines:

"Yes, I know Hillary was wrong to vote for the Iraq war....

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London Calling: Enough Jon Stewart/John McCain Comments Already -- An Explanation

Posted September 23, 2007 | 07:38 PM (EST)


I'm writing a post script on Jon Stewart's ongoing relationship with Senator John McCain because the first piece I wrote provoked such a strong reaction.

I've written five pieces for the Huffington Post and the most comments any of them had drawn was just over one hundred. This...

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London Calling: Memo to Jon Stewart -- Enough McCain Already. You're Hurting America.

Posted September 19, 2007 | 03:21 PM (EST)


First, some personal context: I'm a fan of Jon Stewart.

His show was a welcome breath of tart air, at a time when American broadcast media was still toadying up to the Bush administration over the tragedy unleashed on the people of Iraq.

The Daily Show struck a...

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London Calling: Bye-bye Judith Miller. Could You Take Tom Friedman With You?

Posted September 9, 2007 | 04:39 PM (EST)


At least Judith Miller had the decency to wait a while before making it official, and going public with her relationship with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank.

To me, this most recent chapter of the Miller story has the tawdry feel of one of those celebrity break-ups...

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London Calling: MSNBC Loses It

Posted June 27, 2007 | 08:14 PM (EST)


If 24 hour news didn't already have a bad name, MSNBC would have given it one this week.

In the space of less than one news cycle, the network displayed some of what is so wrong with the 24 hour news genre.

Not only did MSNBC subject viewers...

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London Calling: Geoff Morrell Makes It Official

Posted June 21, 2007 | 11:01 AM (EST)


News that Geoff Morrell, a former ABC News correspondent, has moved to the Pentagon to become an official spokesman there, comes as no surprise to those of us who spent time at ABC.

First of all, to set the record straight: news reports described Morrell as a former ABC...

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London Calling: CBS' McManus is No Arledge

Posted May 28, 2007 | 05:31 AM (EST)


At what stage does Sean McManus, president of CBS News, start carrying the can for the Katie Couric mess?

The critics are happy to snipe at Couric, but she's not the one who decided to spend $16 million of a shrinking annual news budget on a morning news host...

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London Calling: NBC, the Cho Tapes and Responsibility

Posted April 23, 2007 | 08:29 AM (EST)


When NBC rolled the tapes and burned the images of Seung Hui Cho into millions of our memory banks, my mind went back to 1999 and media coverage of Columbine.

We tend to forget that in the pre-9/11 era, the epidemic of school shootings was the...

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London Calling: The Washington Post's Missed Lessons

Posted March 18, 2007 | 06:45 PM (EST)


The Washington Post used to be a great American newspaper, the only one to ever bring down a corrupt president. It did that through the tenacity, intelligence and courage of its reporting.

This past weekend, the newspaper published an editorial marking the fourth anniversary of the start of...

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