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Posted on 10/14/2005 9:31:55 AM PDT by areafiftyone
About "Staged" Video Stunts
Shortly before airing a segment designed to embarrass the President over yesterday’s “staged” teleconference, the Today Show was caught staging a video stunt of its own.
In the Bush/Iraq segment, Today screened footage indicating that prior to engaging in a video conversation with President Bush, soldiers on the ground in Iraq were given tips by a Department of Defense official.
But the only advice that the official was shown as giving was a suggestion to one solider to “take a little breath” before speaking to the president so he would actually be speaking to him. It was also stated that some of the soldiers practiced their comments so as to appear as articulate as possible. But there was no indication, or even allegation, that the soldiers were coached as to the substance of their comments or in any way instructed what to say. (Video available: Real Media or Windows Media Player)
Today’s timing couldn’t have been worse. A preceding segment focused on the incessant rains and ensuing flooding in the northeast. For days now, beautiful, blonde - and one senses highly ambitious - young reporter Michelle Kosinski has been on the scene for Today in New Jersey, working the story. In an apparent effort to draw attention to herself, in yesterday’s segment she turned up in hip waders, standing thigh-deep in the flood waters.
Taking her act one step further, this morning she appeared on a suburban street . . . paddling a canoe. There was one small problem. Just as the segment came on the air, two men waded in front of Kosinki . . . and the water barely covered their shoe tops! That’s right, Kosinski’s canoe was in no more than four to six inches of water!
The Today Show is scripted reality television, not a news show.
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once again===tv people= communication majors=too stupid for the sciences-too dull for the arts
GOD THAT IS F&*King Funny! I love it. Shove it, Katie!
Ha ha ha! I love it! Its like Gore on his canoe trip in Connecticut!
Glad to see the story getting lots of play. I'm a FReeper who wrote the original story at NewsBusters and posted it under my FR screenname this morning:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502290/posts
Thank you for your service to humanity. That video is so funny that I am alive only because I was not drinking or eating when I watched it. The video is chokingly funny because her oar is obviously striking ground just before men walk across the water. "A miracle," I said to myself.
Where were these walking-on-water types when New Orleans flooded? FEMA should deputize them for future service.
I can see it now, a forced landing by Marines, walking on the water, covered by the mainstream media!
This is so funny, I almost lost it when I saw this on TV! Talk about setting the scene!! I remember when ALGORE had water run in a river from a dam so it looked full when he was fishing there (during his presidential run). Talk about being stuck on stupid!!
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