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Posted on 09/12/2005 9:45:17 AM PDT by slowhand520
CNN PRODUCERS TOLD ON-AIR GUESTS:Ê GET ANGRY Mon Sep 12 2005 12:42:11 ET
After weeks of over-the-top Katrina coverage from the mainstream media, LA TIMES'S oped guru Michael Kinsley divulges that CNN has been coaching guests to artificially enhance their on-air emotions!
The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits, are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A Los Angeles Times colleague of mine, appearing on CNN last week to talk about Katrina, was told by a producer to "get angry."
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I also had to stop watching TV. We are watching the Roberts'hearings now. First time the set has been on in days. John Gibson even disappointed me. Shep and Geraldo lived up to my low expectations.
YOU DON'T SCARE ME! WORK ON IT!
Anyone else remember "Tailwind?" CNN showed a "documentary" claiming that USSF had gassed American POWs, an allegation that doesn't hold any kind of logical water, and that was indeed entirely fabricated by the producers, April Oliver and Jack Smith, and on-air talent, Peter "Baby Milk" Arnett.
Arnett is also the guy responsible for the "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" canard from Vietnam. Like tailwind, Petah made it up.
In order to move the documentary, they got the following people to go on air:
Original Tape
CNN: What kind of gas mask did the Army issue in 1970?
Victim: It was called the M17 protective mask. It could protect you against tear gas, nerve agents, and blood agents.
CNN: How did you feel about going on a mission deep behind enemy lines?
Victim: [laughs] For us, that was routine.
Dubbed Tape
CNN: What did you wear to protect yourself from the nerve gas you used?
Victim: It was called the M17 protective mask. It could protect you against tear gas, nerve agents, and blood agents.
CNN: How did you feel about going to murder fellow American soldiers?
Victim: [laughs] For us, that was routine.
That is very close to verbatim, what they did to Jay Graves. This is a standard technique that Rick Kaplan (the guy who was behind the fabricated Food Lion story at ABC, and then was fired from Dateline NBC for rigging crash tests with explosives) of CNN lifted from Don Hewitt's 60 Minutes. (Kaplan has now brought his gutter ethics to MSNBC).
Think about this: in what business can some be caught cheating over and over again, and keep getting handed the ball? Any idea how many generals we have who have had three court-martials, or lawyers who are thrice disbarred?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
I think that several of the verbs I listed at the bottom of post #18 apply perfectly to the "tailwind" "story".
Not surprising at all.
Last year, a close associate (non-media average citizen) who was a witness in a presidential campaign issue was invited to discuss it on two MSNBC shows - Chrissie Matthews' Hardball and Joe Scarborough. He turned them down when they told him he would be paired up with left-wing media types (non-witnesses) because they wanted a screaming match, not a reasoned discussion of the issues. They were the actual words the producers used!
He refused to be drawn into a sideshow with a bunch of morons. More people should adopt the same approach and dry up the guest pool for these whores.
TV reporters being encouraged to act like drama queens.
Surprise, surprise
When you alter the content of a news story,
you are not reporting the truth. When you do
so, to convey an import that was not originally
part of the story..
Ergo, you are *fabricating*!!
You are telling an UNTRUE STORY! A LIE!
CNN *was* caught fabricating the "news", and
*not* just "fabricating emotion", so my
headline *was* accurate!
In four words, you summarized the whole article.
Unfortunately for CNN, actors cannot replace anchors who feel strongly about their news reports.
CNN thinks they can raise their ratings by acting more like Jerry Springer. Not going to work.
News manufactured in an attempt to increase CNN's ratings.
Didn't work. I was watching CNN until they started ranting and raving. Now I'm boycotting.
Last night CNN brought in there foreign AFRICA correspondent to New Orleans...LOL. I laughed my fool head off.
The Jerry Springer Crazy Nut Network
There no longer is an information focused news source in all of America.
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