Short term vs long term and quitting while ahead (continued)

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I've interviewed four Presidents,

over and over you keep mentioning your accomplishments as a newscaster

it gets real tiring

I was going to let you slide on it, you're not young_______ I don't like getting in the face of an older person

but now it's gotten to be too, too much

I put your name into google and YouTube to find info about you interviewing Presidents and I came up empty - I put exactly this into Google - Alan Mendelson and President - got nothing

then I put your name together with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton and came up empty



if you provide documentation, not just your saying so, of your interviewing Presidents I will be happy to apologize


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Really? LMAO

Yeah, I have to agree with Alan. LOL. Is this how people decide what's real? They type a couple words into google and believe that's "research?" What the flying fuck? Are the younger generations really this narcissistic, lazy, and stupid?

You can tell none of the youngsters knows what journalism's about or how to do basic research. I pity the youngsters in academia. They must think that no studies were done before 1995 or something like that.

It's so naive, it's unbelievable. There's this narcissism to it. If typing a couple words yields no results, the "researcher" thinks he's done due diligence. The theory is that everybody wants to be on YouTube, so if googling yields nothing, it must not exist.

The accompanying consequence is that, since everyone can google, everyone's an expert. On everything. LOL. The person doing the googling is not the center of the universe. Google is not God.

And Alan did the interviews. So the fact that he did the interviews completely debunks this particular way of evaluating what's real.

There's also this lazy component to it. When someone says, "I googled it and found nothing," do they really mean they googled and read 500 pages of results and found nothing, or do they mean they googled two or three pages and found nothing?

This way of evaluating the world is just so lazy and childish. Hint: if you want to know something about somebody, google, then make some phone calls. Take notes. Do follow-ups. Send emails. Cross-reference different experts or witnesses. There's some brilliant out-of-the-box ideas, eh?