……..is really bugging me. Yet I do it anyway.

There is NO ONE ON EARTH more media-centric than me 🙂 , but c’mon……..

A whole episode of “Charlie Rose” about ex-President Bill Clinton’s “FOX News Sunday” interview?

Wall-to-wall cable coverage of The Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward coming out with a book explaining the inside story of what we knew all along?

THIS IS NEWS?????

Powerful white men go on white Tee Vee shows and discuss (read: promote) books written by other powerful white men about the actions of a third group of powerful white men (and how Condi and Colin help that third group). Meanwhile, aren’t there people still dying in Darfur right now?

Oh, sorry. Election year. Never mind.

But I’m sure I’m just jealous that we no longer have Black men who directly influence American public policy in ways that help the oppressed and scare the oppressor. I mean, we all know what happened to the last brother who did that successfully, don’t we?  😦

As a Black male would-be nonfiction author who still occasionally pretends to be a Washington, D.C.-area journalist, I also feel left out of this public-policy-book thang. (I was about to ask what happened to writing this kind of stuff for magazines, but I guess authors are tired of just making $15,000 from Esquire and Vanity Fair when they can now grab $150,000 in advance. Maybe it’s always been this way and I’m just now paying attention.) Did ALL of our top political correspondents take buyouts? Where are OUR books on the state of the nation and the world? Have any Black journalists ever met anybody in garages? LOL! 🙂