Jesus H. Christ!
Do I need you to break in over a press conference to repeat everything I JUST FUCKING HEARD?
Are you so goddamn full of yourself that you have to hear yourself talk every five minutes?
With your "Uh"s. “Uhhh…you’ve been listening…uhhh…to…Colin Powell…uhhh…the…secretary…of…
uhhh…state…say hello and…uhh…greet the members of the…uhhhhhh…press conference.”
(Meanwhile, I’ve missed EVERY FUCKING THING THAT’S BEEN SAID WHILE YOU WERE VERBALLY VOMITING!!)
I want to hear the press conferences, not you! And when the WHOLE press conferece is over, THEN GO AHEAD and talk. I’ll be clicking your ass off at that point anyway.
MSNBC,
When you say that you are going to provide us with an update every 15 minutes, make a point of the update lasting less than a couple of minutes. It does’t make sense to have an update every 15 minutes, and then the update itself lasts for 15 minutes, so by the time the update is done, you give us another update! WTF?
Saturday on CNN the anchor was interviewing a Time reporter who was on the scene of the grenade attack just a bit afterward. The reporter was talking about a bag they found and who was being ushered from the area because it might be a bomb. The anchor then began to babble to 5 minutes about NOTHING. And he didn’t shut up even when we could clearly hear GUNSHOTS over the phone line. Then the studio hung up on the reporter…
Wednesday night my local Fox station had a direct feed from Fox news, which was good because we didn’t have cable at work. The anchors went to their guy in Kuwait, and began asking him the standard verbose question. The reporter looked at the camera and said “Shut up a sec, willya?”
That was very funny. and the sad part is, IT IS PROBABLY TRUE.
Who can read all that bullshit at the bottom and sides of the screen and still listen to what is being said?
And who would name their kid WOLF? or SHEPARD?
And I swear to God. I wish they would send Aaron Brown to cover the troops going into Bagdhad and he gets shot WHILE he is on the air talking in that whiny self absorbed voice of his.
I really don’t, he just bothers the shit out of me. And I think he and that other whore Shepard Smith are on at the same time opposite each other.
They could both play themselves in a Mad TV skit, just act like they really do and it would be as if someone wrote it and two comedians are performing it.
I think my favorite news moment was the night the attacks started. The newscaster I was watching said something like, “We have reports that American planes may have been bombing Baghdad. We don’t know what kind of bombs they were dropping, or if they hit their target. We don’t know what their target was or if it was American planes at all.” That cleared everything up.
Perhaps this doesn’t qualify, but I’ll submit it anyway…
A couple of nights ago (on MSNBC), Saddam gave his latest speech. Alex Witt was monitoring the Iraqi TV feed with their terrorism expert, I believe it was. Before the actual speech, there was the Iraqi coat of arms on the screen, which has an eagle incorporated in it. She decided that she must ramble on, for fear that the viewrship would panic. “…and that appears to be the Iraqi logo – er, coat of arms; is that an eagle? Isn’t that a bit ironic, they have the same bird as us?” she asked the terrorist expert.
“Many countries have eagles,” replied the expert, with a rather deadpan expression.
I’ve come to the conclusion that all a person needs to become a talking head for one of the networks is the ability to talk non-stop without saying one damn thing and never take even take a breathjustlikethispostlalalalalalala
I once heard Peter Jennings say (about what I cannot recall) “apparantly it has been confirmed that…blah blah…but that is still speculation.” What? Is it true or not???
They will say anything to keep you watching their network. I realized recently that I don’t believe anything I read or hear on TV anymore. I am not saying it is false, I just don’t believe it until it is a proven fact. Sometimes that takes a while, and the media all seem to be in a big race to be the FIRST to report anything that happens.
Ok guys, here’s the deal. I spent ten years in the TV news business, so I feel qualified to answer some of your questions. What you are witnessing is the result of the existence of three 24 hour news operations. That is a very big news hole to fill. Any new video or information is run and re-run, analyzed and re-analyzed. Anchors are hired to fill the silence. If there is a lull, you might change the channel. Besides, industry research indicates that you are only watching for about 30 minutes at a time, so repetition is not the sin that it once was. As far as the scroll on the bottom goes, that is a result of 9/11 and the resultant sudden increase in the appetite for information. They all do it now. And one won’t stop as long as the other two continue the practice. They are like siblings fighting for your attention…and they will do whatever they think they need to to get it.
The most riveting coverage I’ve seen was the attack on the house in Umm Qasr. A live feed from a still camera, and very little dialogue, call it the “NASA channel” effect. Whenever the anchors started talking I felt like changing the channel, but I was on MSNBC, I knew the other two would be even worse.
Can I send them to their rooms until they SHUT THE HELL UP AND QUIT BOTHERING ME???
Seriously, though, I can’t watch it anymore. I really can’t. I used to watch Fox - I can’t even take my local Fox morning show now. They’ve ruined news for me. I want to know something, I’ll buy a newspaper or listen to the radio.
All of them truly plainly and visibly suck. In my humble opinion of course.
I took to watching Univision for a while. They were providing some interesting video footage and as I don’t speak Spanish very well the newscasters didn’t annoy me.
I’m lucky. We don’t get MSNBC on our cable.
Although I’d like to WATCH Imus )
This morning I’m watching Paula Zahn flirt with some pretty boy reporter (actually he is not bad on the air) and she is saying how he gets a few days off now…blah blah blah…
Uh Paula, we now have captured American service people. Their families are probably glued to TV sets and are SICK with worry.
And you are talking with your colleague about…
OH FUCKIT. NEVER MIND.
Evil, why did you leave the business, if I may ask?
