"Stunning" "Snobbery": The Psychology of Resentment Among Schlemiels

We're so busy being anti-fascist & anti-bourgeois that on the rare occasions we remember PBS's NewsHour, w/ its Limey-influenced "Here's some actuality on film, & when it's done we'll be back in studio w/ a brace of eggheads/pols/flacks/pundits/trained lemurs to discuss the subject in an objective & balanced manner" approach to infotainment, we can't help but larf & look down our noses at the entire "Please, do not offend the corporate entities that pay us" operation.

So we can barely imagine being such a down-trodden, resentful schlemiel that we'd think the NewsHour is a "snob" fest. Tim Graham needn't imagine being such a schlemiel. He lives it everyday.

Has longtime PBS anchor Jim Lehrer listened to Rush Limbaugh – ever?

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Lehrer wants his show to be up-to-date, but his take on the New Media is stunning in its ignorance:

Stunning, indeed! Esp. as Graham's idea of "New Media" is talk radio & cable-blather.

Lehrer needs to do his homework and listen to talk radio and TV before he sings this snobbish Done Somebody Wrong song again. Get out of your taxpayer-subsidized cave, anchor man, and see how the other half talks.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.