[lbo-talk] Bloomberg

Andy F andyf274 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 23 01:47:29 PDT 2005


--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> very generous opinion of himself. Eric Alterman
> brought up that old
> chestnut, media concentration, and Bloomberg asked
> him for examples.
> Eric sputtered a bit, came up with that old story
> about the Fox TV
> station in Florida that had fired a couple of
> reporters, and that was
> it. Bloomberg badgered him about how weak that was
> and Alterman had
> no comeback. It was beautiful to watch. I think I'll
> vote for him on
> the strength of that alone.

Was that because you don't buy the notion of media concentration or was it that Alterman got taken down a notch?

Just asking, Andy

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