Westword
"When I was in office, the morning TV shows were dedicated to public policy," says former Colorado senator
Gary Hart. "You'd turn on the 'Today' show and they'd have serious discussions of health-care problems and Cold War issues, and they'd have people from Congress on. Now it's all about lifestyle. It's cooking, it's dressing, it's celebrity-oriented, it's promotion of other television programs on the network, it's sensationalism. I think the heirs of
William Randolph Hearst have taken over the whole industry."
PLUS: You go through
Tom Friedman's columns, and you get the first-person pronoun fifteen times, says Hart.
