Has the tone of FNC reporting changed?

Vanity | 9/2/05 | Self

[Lokibob]

Has the tone of FNC reporting changed?

 

A couple of days ago, Shep Smith and all the other Fox reporters  in N.O., when they  were talking about conditons there, were factual, and somewhat upbeat.  they would say things like "help is coming", and " it has to get better"..

 

The last few hours, Greta Van Sustern and Steve Harrington have become doom and gloom, even when reporting about good things.

 

A couple of examples:

 

Greta has continuously said "Things are good in the Astro Dome, BUT, how long can it remain good".

 

Harrington: "It is like a war zone out here" (even as the National Guard and police were rolling in).

 

Harrington: "the fire department and police are standing around with their hands in their pockets".

 

The anchors are rephrasing what the reporters in the field are reporting, in a more upbeat way.

 

[Lokibob]

My opinion:

 

As things get better, the reporters are getting a little more desperate to report in a manner that might bring awards.  I think Shep Smith will win a pulitizer for his reporting of the body on the bridge yesterday.

 

 

[wideawake]

Shep Smith will win a pulitizer for his reporting of the body on the bridge yesterday

I understand he's already in the running for a Presidential Medal of Freedom for broadcasting for so long despite the lack of his usual elaborate makeup.

[atomicpossum]

Greta is a queen of misery, and trying to boost the efforts of her fellow Scientologists.

[oceanperch]

I noticed just the oppisite over on CNN

It was all doom and gloom and now it is things are moving and in gear help is here.

Laura was just on saying kids that have been relocated are signing up for schools and parents for work.

[dakine]

This is on TV? They haven't broken into my soaps yet....

[SolarisRocks]

Greta is just sad that the world is paying attention to this 'minor' story instead of the much more important story about that missing blonde.

[kdot]

Personally, I'm tired of Greta. If she reminds us again, that the evacuees don't "even have driver's licenses", I'm going to lose it. Why doesn't she do a story on the geopolitical impact of our energy situation? Or a segment on the governmental chain of command (local, state, federal...). Or interview other architects of sub-zero elevation cities. Or expose the blantant racism coming from some (ahem...) of our leaders - "us/them. we/they..."

She's still in her Aruba mode.

[jdm]

Now....that....was good!

[Lokibob]

Shep has now started reporting, and he is his usual upbeat self.

[verity]

A media whore is forever a media whore.:-)

[Dems_R_Losers]

It's Disaster Porn.

[misterrob]

well, she does such a great job of keeping a stiff upper lip....

[shadeaud]

La. Senator Vitter just said that the body count will go over 10,000 in La. alone. Sheppard Smit is not reporting anymore, he's editorializing.

[Lokibob]

but listen to Greta preach doom n gloom.

[Lokibob]

I've been saying 10,000 + for days now, and I'll bet it goes to 50,000 (I hope and pray I'm wrong).

[verity]

Ever get the impression that she becomes orgasmic when she gets on this kind of roll?

[Pissed_Republican]

She is probably upset that Joran Van Der Sloot is getting released this weekend & has to glom on some other jackass festival...

[mowowie]

I can't take Greta seriously knowing that she takes Xenu seriously.

[KsSunflower]

I think that we haven't half of a clue what these "on scene" reporters have experienced. To be a witness to the devastation, both personal and otherwise, has to have been heart wrenching. Regardless of the ignorance and stupidity of the "victims" it can't be easy to see thousands upon thousands of people beg for food and water..to see the elderly walk through chest deep water to an overpass where there still was no help, to see children sleeping on floors, and babies with little food or diapers.

Regardless the cause...these reporters have done an exemplary job IMHO...

[Lokibob]

I absolutely agree with you. the reporting on FNC has been super. Shep Smith has been there (N.O.) since the beginning, which makes me wonder why Greta, who hasn't even been in N.O. is being so negative.

BTW, I just heard Harrington say something about how he is trying to keep his reports out of the "Doom and Gloom" category. He said this while reporting on how dead bodies are being handled in N.O.