She can't decide who's worst: The lying news directors or the reporter who quotes them

adamg — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:32:53 +0000

Lissa Harris dissects Johnny Diaz's opus today about the rise of local female TV talent (such as, oh, Frances Rivera and Kim Khazei):

... Diaz's story reads like a parody of itself. In it, a barely-disguised pastiche of audience-pandering, economic misery and cold, calculating misogyny is whitewashed with almost Onionesque perkiness. ...