
Next TV writers Daniel Frankel and David Bloom ask that you when you call them "irrelevant," you address them as "Mr. Irrelevant."
DANIEL FRANKEL: Hello David. Hope this Friday before Super Bowl Sunday sees you well. (It is looking for you. And it will find you.) So I was reading our somewhat surprisingly normalized summary of Tucker Carlson interviewing Vladimir Putin in our sibling pub, Broadcasting & Cable, and it occurred to me: What would the media reaction have been in, say 1984, with Ronald Reagan as president, if an unemployed, highly polarizing American journalist on the far left had given an outright propaganda platform to then Soviet Union premiere Yuri Andropov?