Patting Ourselves On The Back

An interesting passage in the Washington Times’ recap of the third annual Michael Kelly Award night:

“What of the profession’s tendency to offer itself substantial pats on the back from time to time? ‘If we don’t, then I don’t know who will,’ replied former ABC-TV broadcaster Ted Koppel, now with Discovery Channel and authoring a newspaper column part time. ‘Why not?’ said Gwen Ifill, former newspaper reporter now with PBS-TV. ‘People everywhere else are busy running us down.'”