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Do you ever watch Situation Room?
If you do, have you noticed the banal nature of Wolf Blitzer's, the program's anchorman, "insights," asides and observations? Blitzer, as a news anchor, does good job as a news anchor and public figure interviewer, but when it comes to delivering trenchant analysis and observations of his own, particularly when he's moderating a panel discussion, he so rarely delivers any that I've taken to calling him "CNN's anchorman for idiots."
To see what I mean, watch PBS Newshour and note the nature of Judy Woodruff's inquiries and remarks.
Having written the above, and to be fair, it may be, and I don't know if it is, that Situation Room isn't intended to deliver thought provoking news analysis, of if it is, that Wolf isn't the person expected to deliver it.
Do think Blitzer a nitwit? No, not at all. I just find many of his remarks delivered from his anchor's chair trivial and worthy only of "Captain Obvious."
If you do, have you noticed the banal nature of Wolf Blitzer's, the program's anchorman, "insights," asides and observations? Blitzer, as a news anchor, does good job as a news anchor and public figure interviewer, but when it comes to delivering trenchant analysis and observations of his own, particularly when he's moderating a panel discussion, he so rarely delivers any that I've taken to calling him "CNN's anchorman for idiots."
To see what I mean, watch PBS Newshour and note the nature of Judy Woodruff's inquiries and remarks.
Having written the above, and to be fair, it may be, and I don't know if it is, that Situation Room isn't intended to deliver thought provoking news analysis, of if it is, that Wolf isn't the person expected to deliver it.
Do think Blitzer a nitwit? No, not at all. I just find many of his remarks delivered from his anchor's chair trivial and worthy only of "Captain Obvious."