As I sat in Cindy Sheehan’s camper in Crawford Monday I made a realization: Everybody hates the media these days. Why? Because the media don’t love them.
That afternoon, I had just recorded an interview for NPR with Sheehan, the anti-war activist who’d been camped outside President Bush’s ranch. To get out of the Texas heat and the noise of the protest site, we went inside the fifth-wheel camper where she’d slept during the last weeks of her protest.
I was cordial with her. She was nice to me. But I wasn’t the one who asked the questions. I simply taped her responses to questions NPR’s Alex Chadwick asked over the phone.
So when the interview was over Cindy got up and went to the camper door. There she said to her media handler, “I don’t think I’m going to do anymore interviews with NPR. They’re too hostile. They’re just stooges of the government.”
