Ya think?????..........
Posted on 11/05/2007 2:38:26 PM PST by Travis McGee
When you don’t feel like covering the news, you manfacture it. Remember the story I broke last spring about NBC News engineering a sting at NASCAR to try and expose fans as anti-Muslim bigots? Well, it looks like the dinosaur networks haven’t learned from the embarrassing backlash to that pathetic episode. Or Rathergate. Or Shattered Glass. Or Janet Cooke. Or Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Etc. etc. etc.
Now, according to the local Fox affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama, it looks like ABC News is engaging in media stage management and Theater of Journalism to expose anti-homosexual bigotry in the South:
ABC is doing a social experiment in Birmingham that includes having same-sex couples show affection for each other in public, according to Birmingham police department sources.
FOX6 first learned about this story from a Southside merchant who pointed out an RV parked at the corner of 20th Street and 11th Avenue South. The merchant said ABC was working on a week-long project to see how people would react to things like public displays of affection by gay and lesbian couples. A FOX6 news reporter approached the RV and talked with an “actor” who said, “Yes, we are working for ABC News.”
The “experiment” is apparently for ABC’s Primetime Live program, which is running a series of undercover stings titled “What Would You Do?”
Welcome to Serious Broadcast Journalism: If you can’t find the video you need to fit the P.C. left narrative, hire actors to make it happen.
Dinosaur network news motto: All the news that’s fit to stage.
Or isn't that what they're doing anyways?
WTF are they smoking?
Nice to see you posting...
And this story will get buried so deep, the worms won’t even be able to shed their droppings on it.
Sen. Craig is moonlighting?
They'd best be careful, someone might not give the answer that they want them to.
Ya think?????..........
So, the couples will be in the shrubbery and restrooms at parks and rest stops?
IOW, they’re paying people to do shocking things in public and then wagging their finger at people who react to it. That’s maybe the dumbest experiment I’ve ever heard and the only thing it proves is that ABC is as full of crap as all the other networks.
Why in Birmingham? Why not Chicago or Cleveland or Des Moines?..............
Good God. What next? (I shouldn’t have asked.)
It’s bad enough abc has carried the nascar season the last half of this year, it’s always family programming on them yaknow at the track , run pretty tight,, and then they run ads for the upcoming desperately horney househussies that were pretty tasteless and suggestive, to say the least..
anything for a buck or two,, or an agenda.
Tthe only thing it proves is that ABC is as full of perverts as all the other networks..............
Why don’t they just use scenes from “Deliverance” instead? Or perhaps “Brokeback Mountain”? ABC and Disney are a bunch of trashy folks themselves, and pulling this kind of stunt proves it.
Birmingham is where the southern homophobe gun-totin’ rednecks is at.
Ya want some good reaction shots, try running down the streets of Harlem with a Confederate Flag.
I lived there for a while in my younger days. I didn’t see no rednecks there...........
Ahhhh...no....that would be Montgomery Ala. Birmingham is to uppity for that.
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