Greg Pollowitz has some thoughts on Tom Brokaw, new media, and classic cocktails:
Tom Brokaw’s thoughts show that he really doesn’t take the threat of “new media” to “old media” seriously:
In 1992 someone asked me how I would change the presidential debate format. I proposed handing each of the candidates a double martini in the firm belief that would get them beyond their canned answers.
I think in 2007 we can pair up the martini past and the electronic future. How long would Joe Biden talk on a cellphone after knocking back a big Gibson, straight up?
A Gibson? Kind of shows the demographic the network nightly newscasts are aiming for.
I’m sorry, but a conservatism divided against vintage, time-tested, perfectly-proportioned, classic libations cannot stand! I will defend the rise of the new media to anyone who listens, and have frequently pointed out the rapidly aging demographics of television news, but a Gibson is not Geritol.
As Jonah Goldberg once wrote:
Conservatism has always been a mix of the gut and the brain. Lincoln defined it as a preference for the old and tried against the new and untried.
And which mix would you rather have in your gut and brain? A classic cocktail with a century or so of breeding and history, or something like this?
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