A Nice Profile
Of Brit Hume in the Washington Post Today. It's actually quite civil in tone, unlike some of the rhetoric directed at Fox News. My schedule now doesn't let me see Special Report, which is a real shame. I think Hume has the best news show being broadcast today. His show is more balanced than any of the broadcast news shows on the major networks. It's enormously more balanced than the other cable competitors. The article traces how Hume came to be more conservative than are most journalists:
Hume says he came to feel "out of step with ABC News's natural tendencies." He recalls challenging an assignment about how the first President Bush "isn't doing anything" by saying: "Has it ever occurred to you that this guy's a Republican and Republicans don't believe that government is the solution to all the country's problems?"
Hume is also a pretty firm critic of much of what he sees as bad behavior in the media:
More recently, Hume said the press corps "behaved badly . . . like a pack of jackals" during the Cheney hunting accident furor. He also criticized an erroneous Associated Press report that said Bush had been warned that the New Orleans levees might be breached, when the word that a weather official used was "overtopped." "Much of the rest of the media fell for it hook, line and sinker," Hume said
The article closes:
For now, Hume will continue to take his journalistic swings, and seems to accept the fact that he is playing to a mostly partisan crowd.
"Am I going to be able to get devoted readers of the New York Times to watch Fox News? Maybe, but it would be heavy lifting," he says. "We are in some respects the antidote."
Yes, you are, Mr, Hume.
