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."
WHen I first arrived in Anchorage in 1980 it was a GI’s dream come true. A free people, good money to be had and minimal legal hassles.
Things have changed, drmatically in the last 8 to 10 years. I suppose too many Califlowers have moved in. Sigh.
Now we have laws on everything, gangs out the wah-zoo and now I hear the local Catholic Social Services is trying to import even more Somalis, Hmong and other classes of refugees.
Aaarrrrggh.
Well, you wanted to be a state. You could have remained the “Blubber Capitol of the World”, but Nooooooooooooo.
“To defeat the left, expose the left”
Exactly. Just like any other bully. Isn’t it amazing that the same tactics that work on the playground work on a national scale with an entire segment of the media?
I don't even know what that goofy mystical statement even means, but the video with the calmly maniacal turkey slaughterer behind her was one of the funniest videos I've ever seen. It was like a South Park scene come alive in the real world.
I am really glad to see someone treat the media for what they are. They are the enemy. During one of Sarah’s speeches, she made note of the media going into the tank for a “certain candidate” and the crowd started chanting “NBC, NBC, NBC” There are a lot of us who see the media as an arm of the dimrat party. Good for her.
It seems that oil money, like dead cheese, attracts rats.
The lower 48 have even more of the same problems with no annual check.
And according to my liberal history of America,
we bought the Alaskan territory so that we
could keep all humans from exploiting the
pristine wilderness to use its resources.
“Sarah should have her own blog where she communicates more at length. She should also have her own youtube channel.”
Maybe this will happen once she finishes up as governor. I imagine she would have had a flurry of goofy ethics complaints had she attempted such a venture while in office.
Sigh - I do not get an oil profits check. Oil companies get oil profits.
Here, read more about the PFD - and what it is and is not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
http://www.apfc.org/home/Content/home/index.cfm - these are the folks that run the Corparation - check the history link.
For the record, over half of the PFD payments wind up going to the FedGov as income taxes - it is the single biggest source of dough for the taxman.
Shame the folks in Califlower won’t drill for their own oil but won’t and so send there money up here.
What's that state motto?
LOL
I love to hear all about the ‘pristene ANWR’ needing protection. Almost the entire slope shore is covered by junk left from the FedGov.
http://www.uaf.edu/water/faculty/nolan/personal/McCall_Aug06/assets4/dewline.JPG (old DEW line site)
So, you are in Wasilla ? thats cool.
So Sarah has read Levin’s latest book! Good.
LOL
I see you are from California - is it warm this year?
I would also like to thank you for the money you send up here with every gallon of gas purchased, we can sure use it.
BTW. you got the Alaska state motto wrong - maybe you slept thru that lesson.
So, in the sprit of FReeper helping FReeper, check out http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/alaska/
It is a site designed for primary school students - now you can catch up on your lessons while learning more about Alaska..
You really need to lighten up and have more fun, maybe come to where the national bird isn't head lice.
He does, and it is. Or he has someone else do the posting.
Indeed. She's going to polish her fundamentals first, then move on to more heady stuff me thinks. She is doing her homework just as so many have said she needs to do. I'd do just about anything to be a close cultural adviser on her campaign. I would carry FReeper water directly to her doorstep.
Maybe Sarah looked at the odds.
With NBCCBSABCCNNMSNBC, she faces 100% opposition from the vile moonbats.
On twitter, it's about 50% opposition from the vile moonbats, and about 50% enthusiastic supporters. She doesn't even have to read the messages either.
Get in line, pal. ;)
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