Herr und Frau Mozart would.
If you mean why wasn’t it up a while back. A bird perched on it and took a tremendously big shit on the lens.
This just in…Bush has ordered another 90 billion to combat ‘bird terrorism’
If you mean whats its purpose. They were hoping for another Kuwait nightsky 4th of July but unfortunatly have not got anything close to it.
This just in…Bush has order 600 billion in fireworks for the Bagdad invasion “to make it look purty”
I was actuallly trying to see if they are stopping for red lights. I bet now would be a good time to get away with running one.
Wow; I miss all the good stuff. When did this happen?
Er, I meant, ‘Where did you see this?’.
My favourite part so far has been on Larry King Live, when Larry had a couple of former POWs and some veteran of Korea and Vietnam on, as a panel for callers asking questions about the POW situation in Iraq. The other two or three guys were pretty good at answering questions, but the vet was absolutely hilarious. He perfectly fit the stereotype of the scatterbrained vet that continuously babbles about his battles, kind of like the dad on King of the Hill. Every damn question, he’d go off on a seemingly random tangent, starting his sentences with either “Well, in Vietnam” or “Well, in Korea”, until Larry just stopped feeding him questions to answer. The icing on the cake was how he looked, leaning way back, with his forehead sort of tilted away from the camera, and exposing as many teeth as humanly possible the entire time, even when talking, completing the image of a total loon. Comedy gold, I tells you.
Somehow I don’t find a person who may have lost his faculties defending this country very funny, in fact it depresses me.
YMMV
Uhhh…that may not be…uhh, the anchor’s…uhhh…fault…It may be the…station…manager…or…whoever…uhhh…decides when they…cut to…another…uhh…story…
Sorry, not making fun of you, but it’s…uhhh…contagious.
Anyway, that may be a matter of, as I…uhhh…said…the station manager telling them, “We’re setting the live feed with two guys who survived that grenade fragging; It’s not ready yet, but Powell’s done talking, so we’ll cut to the studio and you rehash what he said until Joe gives you your cue.”
djf: Re: Peter Jennings: That is a total :smack:!
World Eater, if the guy’s a vet, he’s not currently defending the country.
[spoiler]How many 'Nam vets does it take to change a light bulb?
You don’t know…‘cause you weren’t there, man—you weren’t FUCKIN’ THERE!![/spoiler]
More Aaron Brown.
Last night he has Don Hewitt on (60 minutes producer who started all this bullshit when 60 minutes was “ambush” journalism until they hurt enough innocent people and toned it down to semi-responsible journalism)
He introduces Hewitt, gushing like a schoolgirl. He says something like , “60 Minutes has been on the air almost MY ENTIRE LIFE, except that I’m not that young.”
WHAT??? Aaron, it is NOT about you. It has been on around 33 years. You are in your 40’s. Can’t you just say, “This show has been on since 1968”??
Then goofy Hewitt says “Everyone in news these days is great. Great! Great!! All of them. I am amazed at how good EVERYONE is in the news today. Everyone is great. Everyone. Great.”
I may never watch 60 minutes again.
And another thing!
Lady journalists in the studio. WEAR PANTS. Not a fucking short skirt and high heels. I don’t want to look at your skirt hiked up to your thighs while you are talking about POWS.
And with all this information, and I have watched hours of it, I still don’t even know if Iraq has an airforce!!!
DO they? Why aren’t there Iraqi planes in the sky? with all the “information” I have heard this week, I don’t know if they do or not. Do they have planes at all? Please, someone on SDMB tell me, since FOX and CNN hasn’t informed me of that yet.
To answer your question, djf750, I left the TV news business involuntarily. I was laid off because someone felt the News Department wasn’t making enough money. I was in management, and they could save more money letting me go than they could in getting rid of a reporter or producer. I now work in education, with much the same pay and great hours. I think about my former colleagues working odd hours for not enough pay and I think…BWAAAA HA HA HA HA! Get out now, you fools! BTW, those lady journalists know exactly what they are doing by wearing skirts on camera. Someone staring at thier legs is still a viewer. And Iraq does have an Air Force. Saddam has chosen not to fly any planes yet. As the bombing continues, the option will be removed as we work our way down the target list. (I’m also ex-military).
Thanks for the information, Evil. Didn’t CBS decimate its news department to cut costs while raising “Courage” Rather’s salary? And then the phoney went out and picketed with CBS employees for about 10 minutes, then was wisked off in his limo to have lunch with management and his agent?
And i read that they treated Walter Concrite like shit when he returned for a visit after they forced him out at age 65. And what is up with that? They make Uncle Walter retire and that bugfuck Rather gets to keep going?
I hope everyone has seen the movie “NETWORK” , It is brilliant and it rips apart the “news” industry.