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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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hmoffsuite on March 23 at 4:23 p.m.
I really don’t like having these hearings televised. The merely provide an opportunity for the congressmen to get their 15 minutes. They showboat and play to the fact that they are on camera. Most of the time, they demonstrate their own ignorance regarding the things they should be governing. They hot dog it and try to make the evening news with their personal agendas. Not good nor is it fair to those being grilled, in some cases.
Charlie on March 23 at 4:43 p.m.
Congressional hearings usually end up as bad theater. To many gas bags in D.C. They remind me of carnie barkers.
Stickman on March 23 at 8:59 p.m.
Someone has to make them, I would hate to make those decisions myself.
Escapee on March 23 at 9:34 p.m.
Long ago, I was watching the Watergate Hearings, and saw special agent Alexander Butterfield on the witness stand, revealing for the first time that there was a White House Taping System. I knew Nixon was going down the minute I saw it. So I’ve already seen the pinnacle of televised hearing ‘stuff’. Everything else pales in comparison.