[lit-ideas] Re: True Desperation
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:38:25 -0400
Apparently, my delight at reporters finally acting like reporters
instead of Baghdad Bobs is shared....
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05watch.html
Reporters Turn From Deference to Outrage
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: September 5, 2005
When even Fox News will not give Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld more than half the screen for his first appearance in the
Hurricane Katrina disaster zone, it is clear that television is
having a major mood swing.
The last time reporters and anchors were so personally and
passionately involved in a story was early in the Iraq war, when
journalists who accompanied troops for weeks at a time became
bullish supporters of the soldiers and their mission.
Hurricane Katrina has had a similar but opposite effect: after
spending time with the storm refugees in the Superdome and the
convention center in New Orleans, normally poised, placid TV
reporters now openly deplore the government's failure to help the
victims adequately. And their outrage, illustrated with hauntingly
edited montages of weeping mothers, sickly children and dead bodies
rotting on the street, traveled up the news division chain of
command, from camera operators to anchors and across the spectrum
from CNN to Fox.
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