Posted on 07/21/2009 5:57:27 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Anchorage NBC affiliate KTUU is trying to get one last ratings boost out of Governor Palin, running a "retrospective" series this week. The first entry was yesterday...of course it consists of pretty much nothing but criticism, but there are some interesting tidbits in there about the NBC policy toward Palin:
"She knew when she came back that she came back to a different environment," Stapleton said. "I think it was -- and I hate to say it -- but I think the Thanksgiving pictures coming out of Channel 2 with a turkey getting slaughtered over her shoulder was her first very real awareness that she was back to a different and much more disrespectful environment."
The turkey incident had to do with Palin pardoning a turkey prior to Thanksgiving, and then giving an interview in front of the contraption where turkeys are slaughtered.
"It shouldn't have been on the air because I felt it was out of context with what the story was all about," [Channel 2 News Director Steve] MacDonald said. "The story was about pardoning turkeys and we had a turkey in the background being slaughtered."
The interview only made Channel 2 News briefly. But it was only a matter of minutes before the video had gone national, soon to be parodied on "Saturday Night Live."
"NBC says, ‘If she's doing something, we want to know about it.' Well our assignment desk did what it was asked to do, and when that video came in, it shipped that video via satellite to NBC," MacDonald said.
Channel 2 would never get another sit-down interview with Palin.
MacDonald also did a little whining about the fact that Governor Palin bypasses the media to get her message out directly to the people:
"I find it interesting that journalists now find out about what's going on with the governor by monitoring her Twitter account, or whatever it is -- I haven't done that myself, perhaps I should" [Gregg Erickson, founder of the Alaska Budget Report] said.
For MacDonald, and perhaps for a press corps with expectations of openness and transparency in government, it's a less-than-acceptable communication method.
"Twitter does not cut it," MacDonald said. "No, I'm sorry."
Ping!
‘tough *itties’ as they say up there...
If Obama tweeted, it would be tweeted as gospel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkmxTIUq4L0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQYBwrZReuQ
Sarah videos. Hope you like.
Go Sarah -
openly ignore the “enemedia”,
and ATTACK THEM for their bias.
To defeat the left, expose the left.
Someday if we were to be so fortunate here in Alaska we can get a news station thats NOT liberal owned.
Fairbanks isn’t so bad but for us here out in the valley (Wasilla) we have to endure all the channels from Anchorage.
The Gipper went around the MSM, speaking directly to the people when he was in office. It worked.
So the gatekeepers are getting the door slammed in their face??? HA!!!
NBC does not cut it either. I would rather get my story directly from the mouth of the person, instead of after it was molested by NBC news.
That Twitter account is absolutely brilliant. Another end run around the media. And Palin seems adept at it.
Fixed it.
Can you post a link that would get me the items she’s posted?
Go Sarah!
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IOW, if someone does something completely in the open but we are too stupid to figure that out that is not in the open.
What can be more open and transparent than a Twitter message?
Excellent, I really like both, but the first one is my favorite.
I'm a dusty old fart, and thus well and truly behind the times, tech-wise... but: Sarah's daily postings have finally prodded me into researching the hows and whys of this whole "tweeting" business. ;)
So happy that Sarah Palin is treating the MSM as they should be —> untrustworthy maggots!!!
Dittos.
I does indeed cut it and you should be sorry you aren't current with technology. Tough spit Old MacDonald.
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