Speed Gibson

This was the title of an article by Margaret Carlson of Time and CNN fame. I like Margaret Carlson in that I sense a great intellect that I hope will someday escape its liberal chains. Today she laments that, well, she said it best:

When [U. S. Supreme Court Justices] Rehnquist and Scalia go, the list of potential replacements will include women and blacks. There were none on the short list of Rather replacements, nor on NBC's, which had more time not to consider someone from outside the male preserve.

She says, quite correctly I believe, that there is a glass ceiling here that if anything, has become thicker of late. Brian Williams and John Roberts could be male models. A woman experienced enough to fit the "Cronkite model" will be "too old to be seen in public" which is unfortunate. It begs a larger question of just who is watching these handsome faces despite all the bias and fluff.

She takes a swipe at the bloggers, claiming they hounded Rather into early retirement, not his own ... misjudgment. But it's still a very good, very realistic perspective on the MSM.

Broadcast journalism is in a slump. The money's short, the prestige low, exotic foreign assignments over, unless you count Fallujah.

Still, we're likely to have a woman president before we have a woman anchor on the networks. About the time the network dinosaurs finally stumble into the tar pit, that's when a woman will finally sit first chair.