Patterico's Pontifications

8/25/2005

Rutten Accepts Hewitt’s Demand to Tape and Broadcast His Interview

Filed under: Media Bias — Patterico @ 8:58 pm



I previously mentioned Hugh Hewitt’s demand that Big Media journalists who wish to interview him do so on the air, so everyone can hear the interview and learn what was put in the story — and what was left out. I added a caveat: if a journalist claims that a live broadcast would blow his/her story, Hugh should agree to tape it and delay the broadcast until after the story has run. It looks like Hugh has agreed to just such an arrangement with the L.A. Times‘s Tim Rutten:

I pretaped a 45 minute interview with The Los Angeles Times’ media essayist Tim Rutten today. Tim had called to interview me about talk radio, and I pulled my standard “OK, if you do it on air.” Rutt[e]n countered with the offer of a delay of the broadcast of the tape until Monday, which is fine by me. We cover a lot of ground, especially on the subject of bias at the Los Angeles Times. You can hear it Monday.

I’m looking forward to this. First we’ll see Rutten’s column, and then we’ll hear the interview on the radio. Of course, we’ll never know to what extent the Heisenberg Principle was at work: would Rutten have written the same column if he didn’t know the interview would be broadcast? Still, an interesting experiment indeed. I’ll look forward especially to the reaction of Linda Seebach.

I’m also looking forward with great interest to the discussion about bias in the L.A. Times. Man, this’ll be fun.

2 Responses to “Rutten Accepts Hewitt’s Demand to Tape and Broadcast His Interview”

  1. This should be interesting. Hugh seems to love walking the high wire. Of course, MSM’s record of late hasn’t given him much to fear. Indeed, given their performance, it would be a wise precaution to keep a tape of every interview.

    Hugh didn’t go to j-school. That gives him an advantage.

    AST (19c915)

  2. This is really good news; will prolly be a new model. If pundits do other pundits like this, maybe “on the record” gov’t officials will do more of their interviews — and have their copy on an official gov’t site.

    Even get some good Voice to Text auto-transcripting software, so searching is reasonable.

    Thanks.

    Tom Grey - Liberty Dad (d85398)


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