Frank Rich- Is David Gregory even a Journalist?

[Marr]

4. Exactly-- more of a PR facilitator than anything else. His predecessor, Tim Russert, was once

asked once why he didn't call out these politicians and corporate leaders when they say something he knows to be false. He said that wasn't his job. His job was to 'get their version of the story on record'.

I imagine he put it that way because it's so much easier to justify than, "I'm a stage prop, designed to make propaganda spots look like interviews".

I mean, it's not as if Meet the Press interviews a broad, even swath of the political and social landscape. It interviews corporate politicians and big business insiders of various types almost exclusively. THOSE are the stories Russert was there to 'get into the record', and no others.

Gregory is just another stage prop.