Remedial Journalism 090

I’ve spoken with a few Twin Cities journalists about their complete collapse (I’ll be charitable, as to “collapse” there would have needed to be some actual intent to cover the issue) in re the coverage of Tim Walz (not to mention Ilhan Omar) over this past six years and, for that matter, the Legislative DFL over this past week.

Adjectives fail me, of course; disgraceful, pusillanimous. fawning, obsequious, impotent?

An abomination against whatever “Journalism” was supposed to be?

So on the chance that any Twin Cities journos (outside the half dozen or so that do seem to try to do the job) are tuned in – I present this as a lesson on how interviewing a politician is supposed to be done:

Now, this isn’t a journo – its a member of London’s city legislative body. 

But when I heard it, I thought “if this is a journalist interviewing politician about an important issue, this is how it’s supposed to be done.