Victor Davis Hanson: Our media hurricane

jewishworldreview.com ^ | Sept. 15, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Tolik]

    Victor Davis Hanson Ping ! 

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[rightinthemiddle]

VDH can't be a Democrat, can he?

[MizSterious]

Ah, the column on Katrina I'd been hoping someone would write! Truly a gem. Thanks, Tolik.

[FreedomPoster]

< *WHACK!*>

Take THAT, L/MSM. And I'll throw FNC into the mix, their reporting was only slightly better.

[FreedomPoster]

He's a Dinosaur Democrat, sort of like Zell Miller. A Democrat that doesn't hate America. Almost extinct on the national scene.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Remember the report about the shark sighted swimming down Bourbon Street? That was ridiculous right away.

[drt1]

The breathless, hyperbole driven reporting on this disaster has been nauseating. From the tone, one would think the MSM wanted the water to be lethal to the touch, hundreds of bodies to be found in the Superdome, months to remove the water, etc. as a means of enlarging the already large tragedy. Fortunately for us they are wrong, just as they are wrong about the real situation in Iraq.

[MizSterious]

Fox had it's brilliant moments, and then there was Shep assuring (over and over) everyone that New Orleans had "dodged the bullet"--even while water was rising in the streets out of his view. And I won't even get into the entire Geraldo fiasco.

[rightinthemiddle]

I'd like to see him on some of the Sunday morning roundtables...

Chrissy, Timmy....you can't handle the truth!

[MizSterious]

Yes, it was silly of Geraldo to be swimming in all that muck.

[rightinthemiddle]

What role did the MEDIA have in the Katrina disaster? Will they be held accountable?

[rightinthemiddle]

Who was the guy who did his all stand-up reports in waders, standing in the water, when dry land could be seen just 50 feet away in the background?

[rightinthemiddle]

Thank for the pinger...you were on it early today!

[roses of sharon]

Except that he is wrong.

Wrong about the MSM doing hysterical reporting for ratings, since what they "report" is solely decreed by the DNC.

Wrong about the public no longer trusting the MSM, who say they don't trust them, but believe them everytime.

[JasonC]

That's gotta leave a mark...

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

The BBC was a lot worse than our MSM. They made it sound like the end of the world.

[CBart95]

The problem seems to be one of distinguishing real events from the " exploito-journalism " they churn out on a daily basis.
These junior "journalists" descend on a news story with formulized recipes for "scooping " each other with one more outrageous "angle" after another...many of them refined from past psuedo-news stories like Sheehan or The Peterson Thing, Aruba, or a juicy Michael Jackson mini-series...each one desparate for an attention grabbing sensational contrived "bulletin" that either they can blurt out during live coverage with the wind and rain and coconuts flying or alternatively some georgeous news "doll'" back at studio can drone on as she reads the "stuff" rolling before her uncomprehending eyes back at studio. They call it "news". It's really "infotainment"...content free pap...cotton candy reporting ,all fluff,titillation and "film -at-eleven" jive.

[yoe]

***”Let ghoulish CNN file suit against the government to film all the bloated corpses it can find. Let a pontificating PBS "NewsHour" conduct more televised roundtables with grim-faced elites searching out purported national racism. But few any longer trust a frenzied media whose reporters and commentators continually prove as incompetent as they are disingenuous.”***

I was subjected to another and another “reporter” yesterday bent into the wind ad nausea, showing we simple viewers how strong the Ophelia storm was becoming. Enough! Truly mind numbing reporting. The real story of New Orleans demise began a long time ago (natural flow of the Mississippi River).........excellent article except for the inclusion of Global Warming. Start changing the natural flow of any river, stream, wash, and eventually you will have trouble.

”If the building isn’t burning there is nothing to report” same for “if the races get along there is nothing to report…”

[yoe]

Try pasting:

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/