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Tonight! Carl Bernstein on NQR Radio “Sins of Omission”

By Paula Abeles on March 9, 2009 at 2:20 AM in Current Affairs, NQR Live Chat, No Quarter Blog, NoQuarter Radio

Paulie Abeles’ guest tonight on“Sins of Omission” at 9:00 pm EST is Pulitzer prizing winning journalist, Carl Bernstein.

Bernstein will share his perspective on the Election of 2008, discuss sexism and media bias, and how his perspective on Secretary Clinton has changed since he wrote the critically acclaimed biography: A Woman In Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton”

Here is Paulie’s image. Details for the show, including live chat and caller instructions, are below the fold.

Carl Bernstein shared a Pulitzer Prize with Bob Woodward for his coverage of Watergate for The Washington Post. He is the author, with Woodward, of All the President’s Men and The Final Days, and, with Marco Politi, of His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time.

Bernstein is also the author of Loyalties, a memoir about his parents during McCarthy–era Washington. He has written for Vanity Fair (he is also a contributing editor), Time, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and The New Republic. He was a Washington bureau chief and correspondent for ABC News.

As always, Host Paulie Abeles will take calls from listeners starting at 9:30 p.m. at 1-347-677-0792 This will be a great show! Don’t miss it!

(So we can accommodate our many callers, as always, please keep your questions short and to the point and take your answers off the air).

Sutter

Bernstein’s book on Hillary was a good read.

However, as I reflect back on the 2008 election, I do beleive he turned against Hillary Clinton when he was on TV.

I saw him many times.

Perhaps some questions could address his attitude in this regard.
Chris Martin

One question I’m interested in is how resource allocations to thorough investigative journalism today compares to what it was during the Watergate era. Also, the same question with respect to coverage of international affairs.
DK Jamal

I hope Paula is going to ask him about his own sexism and bias towards Mrs. Clinton:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-bernstein/hillary-clinton-truth-or_b_93523.html

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/5/30/03853/6192
LisaB

I would like to know why, since both women are so different, they got the same MSM treatment.

Both were shrill, polarizing, too emotional, not emotional enough, wore the wrong clothes, had inconvenient family (Bill, Bristol), and while HRC was derided as being hopelessly wonkish because she worked all her life, Palin was said to be an eternal idiot because she went to more than one university.

And WTH does he think of Andrew Sullivan’s obsession with Palin wombs?
PYW

Lately it seems Bernstein has been more positive toward Hillary. I’m assuming that’s the change Paula is referring to.
PYW

BTW, I think Bernstein’s book hardly sold at all.
CB

Bernstein’s book on Hillary was a hit job. He always went for the worst interpretation. Later he was predicting how Hillary would be an ineffective President from Day 1, as he lauded The One (with no qualifications). He is a sexist pig in my opinion, and from what I remember of Nora Ephron’s comments, I am not the only one to think this.

But one so full of himself is bound to be Obama-drawn. Is there anyone else, Narcissis?
http://americanpumainitaly.blogspot.com/ American Girl in Italy

who is that cutie cute little person on your WP icon? (I can see all the little pics people have) It is really small, so it is hard to see if it is a little boy or girl, but the pic is SOOOO cute! What a doll!

(I was just checking the comment threads, and saw it, and had to ask. :O)
Babs

Woodward has done much better than Bernstein in the years after Watergate. I watched Bernstein once on TV during the primaries, and turned the channel every time I saw him after that. I don’t care what any of his ilk have to say now. They got this President elected by being part of the most biased media coverage in the history of this country, and to me they are all as good as dead.
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