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Tue 24 Jun, 2008 03:21 pm
This morning when there was gunfire as the French president was boarding at the airport to leave Israel, MSNBC broke in for a special report.
The news woman said "Gunfire was heard and two female soldiers fainted...blah blah blah, no one hurt, we'll tell you more as we learn about the gunfire that apparently was heard at the Israeli airport causing 2 female soldiers to faint and the french president and Prime minister blah blah blah no one hurt after gunfire heard causing 2 female soldiers to faint..."
Holy Cripes! There was gunfire as the French President arrived at the airport and other dignataries were there and the news person kept throwing in jibberish about 2 female soldiers fainting.
What the heck did that contribute to the story?
Ever hear stuff like that that is unnecessary, redundant, out of place for "news" and say "Why the heck did they say THAT?"
Post it here.
The news reporter was serious and said the tomato problem was President Bush's fault
Causing the two to faint.
I guess it just struck me as odd that the reporter would keep saying that it caused two FEMALE SOLDIERS to faint. They are in a sensitive part of the world, in an important position to protect and our news reporter kept repeating that they behaved as if they were in a scene from Gone with the Wind or something.
I just didn't see the need to keep reporting that part of the "news" instead of saying extended stuff about the French Presidents location or ... Something to fill the space while she listened through her ear piece for more information.
I recall one news anchor on the line with a reporter in the field. He kept speaking of the chaos of the situation. Then, he said to the reporter, "Just how chaotic is it?"
The reporter looked annoyed. "There's no chaos here."
They just blather to fill air space when there's no script.
Yeah, I was just thinking what edgarblythe said - when there's no script, you really find out how incompetent they are. I remember during the 911 reporting that very morning, the anchorpeople were repeating the same stuff over and over and over... just waiting for updates.
But then, you often get the same ads 5 - 6 times during a half hour tv show, so maybe it's becoming the norm? That kind of repetition ensures I won't be buying that product.
It drives me crazy when there's a breaking news report and there are no solid facts, no imagery, no witnesses, no nothing, just a rumor of maybe somehow someone did something somewhere. All in the effort to break the story first.
Drives me crazy!
The fact that two soldiers fainted is, I think, worth noting. The fact that those soldiers were female, on the other hand, doesn't really add much. I doubt that, if they had been male, the anchorcreature would have said "... and two male soldiers fainted."
It seems to me that soldiers who faint at the sound of gunfire present a problem... perhaps a newsworthy problem.
Isn't not fainting an important part of the ability to do this particular job?
maybe they were just pretending to be shot to stop the shooter from firing any more rounds?
YEAH!
thats it.
I thought the salient point of the news story was that a Druze soldier (in the Israeli army) committed suicide.
Just another example of why we do not need 24 hour news. We never did. Thirty minutes an evening was just fine plus news papers.
I guess they thought that would be more interesting rather than the French president being in the middle of gun shot. Sensationalism at it's finest hour.
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