One thing about fame, all the nay-sayers come out and attack you.

Yahoo has put together a collection of short sound byte videos from various 60 Minutes episodes about Lou Dobbs' rise to fame...

http://www.yahoo.com/s/610701

The pre-dominant theme in these sound bytes is attacking Lou Dobbs' credibility as a "journalist". As if, 60 Minutes is trying to bury this guy. As if, 60 Minutes is real journalism.

Lou Dobbs' show competes with 60 Minutes, just as Lou Dobbs' show competes against Bill O'Reilly. He's open game, as far as 60 Minutes is concerned.

At this stage of the game, I don't consider Dobbs, O'Reilly, or even 60 Minutes to be "journalism". By this time, it's more like "intellectual entertainment". These shows do focus on the current issues, but they can't change our thinking anymore. We've become so set in our ways as conservatives, liberals, libertarians, et al, that these shows serve mainly to stroke our ideologies.

Liberals watch 60 Minutes because that show upholds their ideology. People watch O'Reilly for the same reasons, as they watch Dobbs. Has Limbaugh ever changed a liberal into a conservative?

This blog you're reading doesn't report on the news. Rather, we just give our analysis of the events. That's what Dobbs does, and that's what 60 Minutes does. Maybe you can think of them as video blogs that appear on television.

Labels: 60 Minutes, Lou Dobbs