Posted on 01/14/2019 7:48:57 AM PST by yesthatjallen
VIDEO AT LINK:
CHICO, California — KRCR News Channel 7 reporter Meaghan Mackey was attacked while at the scene of a mass overdose in Chico Saturday night.
The station says Mackey was ‘shaken up’ but uninjured.
“As many of you know, our reporter Meaghan Mackey was attacked while at the scene of a mass overdose in Chico tonight,” KRCR said in the statement. “Meaghan is very shaken up but is okay. We are thankful law enforcement was right there and handled the situation quickly. We appreciate all your kind words.”
Lower budget station reporters often do their own camera work.
Wow... This is a professional reporter? Note how many times she says “You guys...” Yikes.
Too bad they weren’t that upset about their loved ones on drugs.
One of my friends lost her daughter to this crap. It’s just crazy. The daughter posted on Facebook that she was finally clean and was dead two days later.
Thanks. Didn’t know that. Do they teach them to say “you guys” as much as possible, too?
And variations such as, “Youse guys”.
That’s what they do here. These reporters went out by themselves into the thick of the fires in Pardise and elsewhere and covered the events live...into the night and beyond. Most of the local reporters go out by themselves around here. After all the recent events of fires, floods and collapsing dams, the reporters are quite familliar with local first responders. It is a small market and these are young reporters for the most part. They gotta learn somewhere. Usually they do an okay job.
“Someone says you guys way too much.”
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“LOL. Indeed!”
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Reminds me of wayback when I would watch my sister’s kid’s in the 70s and “Electric Company” would come on TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_iGaQglnKg
“Disrespectful.” You just aren’t allowed to “Diss” certain people. Especially if you have “white privilege”.
California is always on Fentanyl just some more than others.
“Or family members who are already upset and annoyed that press is making a story out of their family tragedy.”
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It would be hard to work up a great deal of sympathy for a family that gets together to use deadly drugs.
At my family’s get-togethers the big thing was waiting to see who would be the first to pop for a case of beer. But we never strayed into Darwin Award-winning territory.
I would agree if that was the case. However, couldn't it be that the family assembled at the death site of a family member after-the-fact? That's what I was thinking.
I have a friend who lost a niece to a fentanyl overdose about 10 days ago. The family did not approve of her behavior in any way but rallied together at the scene of her death to support one another. Had a reporter shown up that at least one person would have taken offense to the reporter's presence and would have asked, perhaps politely, perhaps not, that the reporter to leave.
Still no reason to get too worked up over, much less attack. Reporters have pretty much always reported such things on the scene.
In the old days it was caught on film, not live - I remember one instance as a child where they showed up when the apt building my family lived in caught fire and we were hunkered down at a neighbor’s. The reporters were just doing their job.
I can agree that they should get scolded and chewed out if they’re shoving cameras and mics in people’s faces at a deadly scene, asking them “how do you feel?”.
But most of the time, they’re just covering a story. For me, it’s just part and parcel of American life.
And from what I read this was more or less a first for the particular area, so it would attract press coverage:
“We have been waiting unfortunately, for this to happen in the sense that we knew fentanyl had been moving west,” said Chico Police Chief Michael O’Brien. O’Brien said that officers had not responded to many fentanyl-related incidents in the past.
“’Disrespectful” another word that has lost it’s impact due to misuse”
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Yup - same with “inappropriate”. Just say “wrong” if it’s wrong. Inappropriate is when you use the dessert fork when you should have used a salad fork.
Womp womp.
Too funny! I was a kid when The Electric Company was on. My sister and I watched it often.
I once cranked up the volume on my parents’ big Zenith console TV *right* before the “HEY YOU GUYYYSSS!!!” portion came on. It scared the heck out of my Mom and I got popped on the butt for it. It was worth it though.
I was such a little pain in the butt sometimes. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. :)
Oh, yeah, it sure had a unique opening. Kids seemed to love it.
Embarrassingly poor skills. I was in television news for more than
twenty-five years. Had I or anyone on staff presented ourselves that
badly, we would have been fired.
“Hey guys” “You guys”. Next job, telemarketing with a script.
*Although a strong argument can be made for illegal immigrants, welfare parasites, Democrat voters and New Yorkers to be in this category too.
And truth be told, the illegals are best of the lot, mostly willing to work before the left convinces them to hold their hands out.
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