Will this hurricane disaster wake up the pretty face reporters?

[Roland99]

Many of them are seeing, first-hand, the horrible tragedy unfolding in New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, Mobile, etc.

Seeing the hundreds and hundreds stranded on roofs barely above water and without potable water/food for over 3 days now, I wonder if this human interaction with true suffering will change the mindset of some of these corporate media whores?

[blondeatlast]

1. The toughest reporters are in Iraq, and even they can't hold a candle

to the reporters in Vietnam--or even freaking Watergate.

Perhaps it will bode somewhat well for the future as it will require more than pretty clothes and faces.

I'm an eternal optimist, I admit, but it does get to be hardder and harder...

[kenny blankenship]

5. They're not asleep so waking up isn't in their futures

their job is as always to keep others asleep, and to protect the Republican "consensus" together with its figurehead of Chimpus Maximus, from all harms, but most especially from the intrusion of reality.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Our best reporters are our bloggers and indy folks like Amy Goodman and

Greg Palast.

[Roland99]

10. Yeah, but they get ignored by the MSM. They don't garner the big ratings.

One day maybe.

[Doctor_J]

3. They'll still get paid this week

so why should they worry?

[HamdenRice]

4. Soledad O'Brien was controlled, but seething rage early this morning ...

I haven't seen TV since this morning, but I was shocked by Soledad, who is usually so bland. She was seething and kept asking what the government was doing for people, and she was getting no answers.

I didn't know she had it in her.

[A Brand New World]

6. My impression is that this tragedy is affecting the on-scene reporters

tremendously. I don't think that the emotion and frustration that they are showing is fake. I think they can see that the Fed. Gov. response to this disaster has been a DISASTER. Why is it taking days and days for a response from the Feds? The reporters can see the difference in response to the 4 hurricanes last year in Florida during the election year. I asked my husband this evening if the response would be so slow if this had happened in Houston. Hopefully, the media will discontinue their abject cooperation with BushCo and start reporting the truth of their regime now.

[Roland99]

9. But will they maintain this anger and passion?

[Deep N RedLand]

7. Doubtful.

To see jerks like Sean Hannity (though I hardly call him a reporter) spend half his program being upset over the images of looting, it kinda shows you were some of their priorities are. Though I doubt he'd be as outraged if those people were how shall we say...lighter in tone.

The only good thing about this their coverage is a least it has given the Conservative Corporate Cable (CCC) media something else to replace their 4 month 24/7 coverage of one missing person.

[Roland99]

8. No, not morans like Hannity. I'm talking about like Shepard Smith.

He was out there with people on that overpass who were trapped with no water...a baby going unconscious in the heat.


People like that.