Why can't we get aggressive media people in DC like we get at crash scenes?

[Stinky The Clown]

I was watching the nooz coverage and the NTSB presser from the crash scene in Buffalo.The NTSB spokesman was perfectly clear and made it even more clear that they know only two facts. A flight did not make its destination and there is an airplane on the ground short of that destination. He wasn't being snarky. The NTSB is a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other sort of organization. They don't speculate, they just deal in facts.

After explaining the same thing over and over for each reporter who asked it, he attempted to end the presser. The noozers there just kept shouting questions (essentially the same ones already asked and answered several times over) that were no different except for the phrasing of it and the asker's voice.

Shouted. Persistent. Gaggle-like.

But all that is preamble to my actual, main point.

To wit:

Why are young or not nationally known news people more aggressive than the fawning press corpse that works inside the DC cocktail circuit?

Funny thing, too ...... I didn't hear the news people at the scene interviewing each other.






Without an honest, hard working, impartial media ......

WE ..... ARE ..... WELL ..... AND ..... TRULY ..... FUCKED.






But we're good at chasing shiny things, butterflies, and ambulances.





eta: the second "g" the word "aggressive" in the title

[begin_within]

1. The disasters that happen in Congress and the White House are just too much for them to stomach.

[cherish44]

2. I remember thinking the same thing when Anna Nicole Smith died...

The massive hoard of pressbots kept asking over and over..."Was it a drug overdose????" And the medical dude said over and over "WE DON'T KNOW YET" I remember thinking why can't they go after some of the people in Washington with this same fervor?

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Awe turns to coziness in DC

They ought to make reporting in DC a rotational assignment.

Or they ought to make it illegal for the noozers to socialize with the noozmakers. Kinda like limiting lobbying ........ oh yeah .... that works well. What was I thinking??? :headsmack:

:eyes:

[blindpig]

3. Cause it's not in the job description.

In DC we got a train wreck.

[LiberalEsto]

5. Because they don't dare act aggressive

when it really counts.


Their kkkorporate masters would fire them.