I thought about adding this to the CNN threead as a hijack, but I figured it’s get lost in the noise.
Usually, I can JUST tolerate his condescension, but last night, he actually spoke about a flight of B-17s being in on the first raid south of Baghdad. When he was corrected about the F designation of the Nighthawk, he still called them F-17s instead of F-117s.
Pete, Pete, Pete. You think your viewing public is a bunch of slack-jawed, drooling morons, but you’re only 60 years behind the times regarding state of the art airpower.
That was the trouble with glue-sniffers, always stuck up.
I’m not overly interested in the OP either unless this Peter cxharacter is related to the legendary Pat, hands like shovels Pat had … I went to his testimonial.
Peter Jennings was a dickhed I went to school with. Wanker stole a chip off my plate once. Taught him a leeson though, gave him some of those fruit flavoured laxatives on a school trip to Alton Towers. Wasn’t pretty, they had to shut the corkscrew down for cleaning.
And it seems that somebody else also called Peter Jennings got an airplanes name wrong.
Personally I’m more upset with the reporters who act like they’re battle-hardened veterans. The hard-ons they get from using terms like “Bunker Buster Bombs” are obscene. Especially on the women.
You’re a fucking reporter. Report the news. If I want sensationalism and vacuous pseudo-drama, I’ll watch “Fear Factor”.
May I add NBC’s Fred Francis to the “fucking idiot” list" He totally screwed up in reporting the USS Iowa explosion back in 1989, and NBC still has him as one of their top reporters! Everytime I see him, I change the channel.
For you Dopers outside of the US, the Peter Jennings I’m refering to is ABC’s prima donna news anchor. He reeks of ‘holier than thou’, and since he’s also Canadian, he’s always talking abooot things.
I’m get the impression (from reading the board) a lot of people think US news and current affairs has decided to become ‘entertainment’, rather than impartial reportage … I guess it all follows on from the success of the whole ‘breaking news’ concept.
The one thing that bugged me above all other was the “must leave it there, than you”, cutting off the (current) interviewee as the interview is about to end (anyway) and implying this is a fast moving story and something big has just happened … I don’t know why, it just seemed so fake and ill-mannered. And then that nonsense moving across the bottom of the screen … agh !... This is going to be my first major world event without a teevee. Interesting perspectives beckon …
Sorry for the ramble, I needed the exercise.
I was told a couple of years ago that Roone Arledge had decided that ABC cwould spend less on worldwide collection of news stories and instead would make the presentation “glitzier”. No, I don’t have a cite but I’ll see if I can’t find something.
Jennings isn’t the only one. On Monday night, I dropped by my father’s place to say hello, and we watched the President’s speech. Afterwards, one of the idiotic talking heads said (and I paraphrase here): “This will be the first time the U.S. has attacked a country that hasn’t attacked the U.S. first.”
Think about that one.
The list is endless. I came up with a few off the top of my head, but I have no doubt there are more.
Germany
Italy
Spain
Vietnam
Korea
Iraq, the last time around
Anybody involved in the First World War (yes, there was the Lusitania, but I’m not sure that constituted an attack on the U.S.)
In fact, the only country (after the War of 1812) that my dad and I could come up with that had attacked the U.S. first was Japan (I’m leaving Afghanistan out of this count on the premise that it was Al Quaeda, not the nation of Afghanistan, that attacked on September 11, 2001).
Now, I’m not saying that the U.S. didn’t have good reason to attack these countries (Italy and Germany were Axis powers allied with Japan, in the case of Spain there may or may not have been an incident provoking the attack). But this current war is hardly the first time.
Someone on MSNBC said “GPS” stands for “Global Proximity Satellite”.
I have very little respect left for the media. They’re all idiots. Plus, I’m a scientist, and if they cover other areas as poorly as they cover my area, well, YIKES!
