I knew the duck hunting thing would come up. Knowing and being friends with a party is not the same as having a personal interest in the outcome -- which is the legal test. If going out to lunch with or liking an attorney is a conflict problem for a judge, my wife would have to quit her job as a prosecutor after 1 month. Being friends does not preclude impartiality.
But, I think his taste in friends speaks volumes.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming -- which I think includes pretending there is a difference between print and broadcast media companies. [img]tongue.gif[/img] Let's try to be mindful that all our base are belong to 3 or 4 big companies that get to feed us info from about 5 different directions.