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Tim Pierce ([personal profile] topaz) wrote2005-09-04 02:03 pm
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the natives are getting restless

From Slate: the reporters are getting angry.

Related: Crooks and Liars supplies a video clip of Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera losing it on camera. (Say what you will about Geraldo, I don't think this was staged -- he's just not that good an actor.)

These video and audio clips are stunning. They are all worth reviewing. The NPR clip linked from Slate is particularly riveting: I have never heard Robert Siegel come so close to losing his temper during an interview.

At dinner last night someone else brought up this phenomenon of reporters being unable to maintain neutrality. My mother said she had heard one reporter say that this was the first time in her career that she felt she could not stay on the sidelines, that she had a moral obligation to intervene in the situation.

It seems as though New Orleans, and not Iraq, could become this generation's Vietnam. It is obviously too soon to tell, but no other event I have seen in my lifetime has led the press -- or the public -- to such open disbelief with the government's statements as the events of the last week have. The protests against the two Gulf Wars, by contrast, seem remote and detached: outrage from the usual suspects and bland equivocation from the media. I have never seen such rage from the press.

[identity profile] agaran.livejournal.com 2005-09-04 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Just saw the clips you pointed to.

I said to Steph, "Holy cow! If Fox News is showing this stuff, you know the Administration is now hip deep in their own shit."

She replied, "Not likely. This will just be another example of something that will blow over, just like the Rove story."

[identity profile] pinkfish.livejournal.com 2005-09-04 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . either that, or it is just another escalation. You know,


  • The Rove story was getting too hot, so we did a Supreme Court nomination,
  • The Supreme Court nomination was getting too hot, so we had a hurricane hit,
  • The Hurricane was getting too hot, so we knocked off the Chief Justice, ...


I don't know why,
she swallowed the fly.