UPDATE: “Listening to Jeff Zucker talk, when he thinks outsiders aren’t listening, is oddly inspiring. Anybody who’s thinking about a career in journalism should hear his words. If you think you need to be smart or rational or well-informed to become a powerful TV news executive… nope! If Zucker can do that job, anybody can. If anybody at CNN is reading this, hang in there. We know you’re being held hostage. We’re sorry this is happening to you.”
Heh. As Glenn advised pioneering bloggers on Thanksgiving of 2001, during the very early days of Instapundit, “Any time you start to doubt yourself, and wonder if you’re fit for the big leagues of American thought and opinion, you can just read The [New York] Times and be thankful that the standards of the big leagues aren’t so high.”
The “big league’s” standards certainly haven’t improved since.