Nothing new on television news

Watching “Larry King Live” on the crisis at the Israel-Lebanon border and something strikes me: Guests include former Jean Kirkpatrick, an ambassador and national security adviser under Ronald Reagan, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, who served as a negotiator in the Middle East for Bill Clinton, Zbigniew Brezinski, national security advisor to Jimmy Carter — a group associated with the handful of successes in the Middle East, but also associated with a trajectory of failure. Essentially, what the King lineup shows is the inability of the mainstream media to bring new voices to bear on the region and, perhaps more importantly, the inability (or unwillingness?) to bring creative voices from the region into the discussion.

Just a thought.

South Brunswick Post, The Cranbury Press

Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet