Politico
Thursday night’s “Reel Journalism with Nick Clooney” event at the Newseum was a conversation with married news-couple Connie Chung and Maury Povich about the current state of journalism.
But the event, which also featured a screening of the 90s film “The Paper,” turned a tad uncomfortable when Chung started to mock her husband, even blaming him at times for the tabloidization of media.
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“The pendulum has swung largely because of him,” Chung blurted out when Clooney asked Povich about tabloid journalism. (It’s something he knows plenty about, having practiced it for 20-plus years on his eponymous show.) More…