Blogging is Slogging

He's right... Blogging is tough work. Or at least good blogging is. There's a reason I don't have a hit-counter here. It would show "4".

changing source of news

anecdotally, the Daily Show, a comedy satire of nightly news with some pretty scathing insight, is becoming a top source of real news. How can the newspapers respond? Onion supplements on Fridays?

journalism gone completely awry

when your trademark is repeating an inane question over and over again, you're bound to do some block headed things. This to me is disgraceful journalism, especially coming under the masthead of the supposedly holier-than-thou BBC. There is a place for this stuff, but it's not in professional news organizations but politically-affiliated action groups. But those groups don't have the access of the BBC, do they?

Read the feedback that follows the transcript as well. My gauge is about 8:1 against Paxman. Sack him. My favorites:

think that increasingly JP is becoming a parody of himself. He approaches interviews in an aggresive manner with apparently more interest in tripping people up than gaining insight to their politics. Regardless of what you think of Galloway the question was absurd and JP has embarassed himself.Niall Duncan, Dundee

Paxman is a disgraceful example of a celebrity newspresenter, more interested in his own hard-nosed image than actually doing his job. Paxman was far more sucessful inciting racial tension in that shameful interview than Galloway ever has and he should lose his position at the BBC as a result. What ever happened to unbiased
interview technique? Paxman should go work for Fox
News!Fred Nicolle, Cambridge, UK

Mr Galloway is one of the least likeable figures in politics and I would have loved to see him properly cut down to size by Paxman, instead i was left seeing a bitter squable in which Paxman asked a stupid question repeatedly and Galloway actually came off well for refusing to talk to him. Rob Green, Edinburgh

Is Paxman seriously suggesting that someone should be given a clear run because of their colour and sex? If so, that is sexist and racist. Is he suggesting that the only
candidate who can stand against a black woman is another black woman? Is
this some sort of crazy card game? I trump your black woman with a black gay
woman? I'm liberal, would probably be termed politically corrext, but I fear
Paxman is becoming a parody of himself. Paul, London

For Paxman to even imply that a white politician beating a black politican
is something in itself 'bad' is disgusting. Paxman should apologise immediately
to Galloway and to his viewersDavid, London

Another farewell to a fine TV news correspondent

First the big 3 lost their anchors, and now the country's best show loses its #1 star. A sad day for journalism. A great day for comedy.