Lee Abrams Wants Reporters to Dress Like Columbo

Via Romenesko, the genius of journalism shares more ideas:  "We've heard what the experts think, lets open it up to REAL people. This could be red hot. What the average citizen's take on the topics is."

Yes, this is why people watch the news and read newspapers, to learn about the financial crisis, or about the growing anarchy in Peshawar, from their uninformed, thoroughly average neighbors. Lee Abrams is the advance guard of ignorance.  Just as a reminder of who Abrams is, here's a brief excerpt from my interview with him from earlier this year:

Question: When I was coming up, there was an expression that the role of the newspaper is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. Does that ring true anymore?
Answer: Probably not as much as it did.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2008/11/lee-abrams-wants-reporters-to-dress-like-columbo/9126/