One of my Facebook friends posted this link. It shows, in just a couple of minutes, much of what is good and bad about live broadcast news. The heartstopping moment when you see the little dog’s face poking out from the debris is just awesome. But the reporter is very condescending with her questions and obviously thinks she already knows what the answer is going to be. “No, I’m just a hick from Hicksville, Oklahoma, and it’s just too much for me, and I’m just going to wander around in this field for a while unless you lead me out, because I depend on big-city folks like you for every thought that passes through my synapses.”
If that one got to you, try this cat one from a few years ago.
[sub]I’ve seen it several times and it just got me again, goddamnit.[/sub]
I only watched the whole thing once, but don’t find this is necessarily true. my impression was that the woman interviewing her was just not very good - that she, in fact, couldn’t take it all in, and didn’t know what to say. She sounded very young to me.
it maybe happened the way you saw it - and maybe not.
also, the crew helped the dog without having to be asked, is what I saw. people seem to want to demonize the reporter & crew when they are just doing their jobs.
When she said “Now I’ve got everything I want” I got tears in my eyes.
I think the questioning was all designed just to get her to cry, keep asking probing questions, trying to find a button to push to get her to start weeping and then air it.
I’ve watched it a few times and as she’s starting to try to move the debris to free her dog you can hear her say “help me”.
Not that it matters much, it’s still very heartwarming.
Me, too. OMG, what a tear-jerker. Thanks for the link.
At the risk of sounding like a huge bitch, all I could think of was that woman didn’t look too hard for her dog if he was that easy to spot.
I would have been turning over everything to find one of my pets.
I assume that you are about the same age as that woman?
If you didn’t notice, there was an awful lot of stuff to be turning over there. And even though the dog was so close, it was probably so scared, in a state of shock, that it still took the poor thing a long time to react to her voice.
According to this report the dog’s name is Cathy.
And we saw how hard it was for her to turn over just that one piece of debris. That’s why I assume that Honey is about the same age as the woman in the video, because otherwise how would she be able to judge what a dazed old woman standing in the middle of a field of rubble is capable of? I mean, if she’s not the same age as that woman her comment would be so vile and mean spirited that “huge bitch” wouldn’t come close to covering it.
Now, now…
It was a cat, not a dog. And bless that woman - she rocks! I’m thrilled for her.
Oops, two different videos, one with a dog and one with a cat. I’m happy for both of the women - and both were very impressive.
It was a horse!
It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
Holy crap, how did the tornado blow debris all the way over the Atlantic? I’m just going to grab a tissue and see if I can get it out …
Hereis the original CBS News video.