For My Blogger and MSM Friends

I posted (as did other bloggers) Dennis Zaki's video of a local TV reporter asking Lisa Murkowski to say and spell her name and then to state her title. We all expressed dismay at a reporter's lack of preparation when interviewing, in our state, a US Senator from our state.

A number of people with journalism training defended her action as standard operating procedure for testing the mic and getting the data onto the video.

I think we might all do well to take Rogers and Hammerstein's advice to farmers and cowmen:




[We arrived a little early to a balmy 42˚F (5˚C) Anchorage.]