I heard that. I mean, really, what was he going to say? “I can’t afford a car so I’m stuck here?” Who’d say that on TV?
The best line was “I want to live”. Really? So why the fuck did you stay in the path of a cat-anything hurricane?!? Shit, here in MA we’ve heard all about it, and we’re not going to get anything more than a pleasant evening shower from this storm. Those of you at ground zero must be hearing about it 24/7 for DAYS ON END before it hit. Plenty of time to get the fuck out of Dodge, even if you don’t have a car.
Fine, stay your sorry ass behind. Run for mayor of Atlantis/Vienna West for all I care. People like this make me think Tool could have written Aenema about them. Learn to swim, see you down in Oklahoma bay
You’re watching. That’s why they air it.
Really? I’m no different from the guy shooting footage of people screaming? The guy editing it?
Me (paraphrasing): “I think that’s bad!”
You (paraphrasing): “Yeah, well by calling attention to it you’re just as bad.”
It’s my fault if you lack impulse control and have to run off to watch this newest tale of suffering and tragedy, simply because you didn’t know about it before?
The network is putting that shit out there because people are drawn to it.
You’re putting that shit out there because people are drawn to it.
To look like they’re above being attention mongers, they voice their concern.
To look like you are, you voice your outrage.
You want that shit to go away? Stop posting info about where we can go find it.
I am? 
If the total destruction of an air raid shelter can’t get their attention, nothing will.
Jim Cantore, from the Weather Channel, is the worst ghoul of them all. His voice quivers with delight every time he descibes the awful, total, hell-on-earth conditions. He eats it up.
May I complain about a related idiocy on the part of the media? Only tangentially related, but it’s not worth starting its own Pit thread for? I’ve seen it on three different New Orleans media websites in the past 24 hours, and it’s making me CRAZY.
Morons, when a levee starts letting water through, it has a BREACH. Not BREECH. Breech is “the lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks.” It doesn’t have a damn thing to do with a busted levee.
Use your damn dictionary, or better yet, learn to fucking spell when you’re reporting from a town with a zillion miles of levees, two of which have BREACHED! :wally
You’re right - if only I would stop complaining about what’s on CNNs front page, no one could find it and it would all go away.
:dubious:
You joke, but this actually happened in 1997 in Grand Forks, North Dakota (where I lived at the time). The river had crested well above the levees and inundated both banks. Downtown Grand Forks was under about 10-15 feet of water but people who lived in upper levels of apartment buildings (a lot of whom were college kids) were staying in their apartments and refusing to obey evacuation orders. That night, downtown started on fire. I remember watching on television (as a refugee at my wife’s parents’ farm in Devils Lake) the bizarre sight of half submerged buildings blazing above the water line while helicopters tried to rescue idiots from the rooftops. On the bright side, some other helicopter were scooping up flood water and trying to douse the flames with them, which resulted in the soaking of those onthe rooftops.
I remember that. I’ve also seen footage of burning, flooded-out buildings in New Orleans today. I hope no one is on the roof.
Speak for yourself. I didn’t watch to begin with because I figured it would be about like that and now that I find it’s gotten worst than I imagined (“Coming up…here peopel screaming!”) I seem to be controling the urge to see that pretty well. But it’s interesting to hear about what’s being broadcast…it is, sadly, part of my culture.
But it would certainly put an interesting spin on Henry V’s big speech :D.
If i remember correctly the CNN adverts on TV actually promote the site by saying something like:
“See the most exciting news videos of the day!”
If not then you’re complaining about and criticizing something you haven’t even seen…
Maybe I’m a vulture, but I’m watching every bit of footage I can because I’ve driven or walked those streets, I’ve shopped in those stores, heck, I’ve even lost money in those casinos. It’s very, very personal. For lots of us, frankly, they can’t show too much footage, especially aerial views so that we can see how neighborhoods look when they aren’t actually reporting responsibly by providing actual, y’know, information. I was able to tell one evacuated friend, for example, that I saw an aerial view from just a few blocks away from where she lives and her house may have minimal flooding, if any at all, as a result.
So for some of us, it’s actually providing useful information. I do watch with the sound turned off most of the time, however. CSPAN-type coverage is my ideal; they can run a trailer with any actual news.
“Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more into the breach.
Or close up the levee with our New Orleans dead!”
There is one CNNer at least who is truly touched by all the devastation and suffering. Jeanne Meserve’s beat is usually Washington, so maybe the stress of the field is getting to here, but in the midst of one interview she completely broke down in tears.
Was that the one where the guy was describing trying to hold on to his wife, unsuccessfully? I thought I heard the reporter choke up when she said, “You lost your wife?”