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Fox looking for "good news"
debboo | 9-25-2005 | debboo

Posted on 09/25/2005 12:14:49 PM PDT by debboo



TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: emergencyworkers; foxbots; foxnews; texas
My daughter is in Beaumont, Texas as part of a deployed Kentucky Emergency Services group. They took 25 ambulances and many paramedics to be on hand after Rita was finished. A Fox News person, don't know which, approached one of our guys and ask if they had any "good news" they could report. The guy told him that they had come from Ky to help in any way they could, the guy just brushed him off with a shew of his hand and walked away only to be stopped by a man who told him he had "rode out the storm". The FN whomever, jumped on that story. So much for the real heroes in all this, the EMS, no matter where they are from. Now that I mention it, I haven't seen story one on any rescue workers except National Guard. I think I will start calling it the Fascination News Network.
1 posted on 09/25/2005 12:14:51 PM PDT by debboo
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To: debboo
What a shame the real "good news" isn't "news" anymore.

God Bless your daughter and the rest of the Kentucky Emergency Serices. They are the real heros that many don't hear about because of the crassness of the MSM.

2 posted on 09/25/2005 12:18:07 PM PDT by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
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To: debboo

Fair & Balanced.

And Unafraid.


3 posted on 09/25/2005 12:18:16 PM PDT by martin_fierro (|\/|4R71|\|_P|-|13RR0)
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To: debboo
Well I'm not sure that a bunch of staffed ambulances showing up to be at the ready counts as news of either a good or bad nature.
4 posted on 09/25/2005 12:19:42 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: debboo

Missing Persons Network


5 posted on 09/25/2005 12:21:37 PM PDT by Crazieman (6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
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To: Artemis Webb

25 ambulances showing up is GOOD news, especially when a hurricane has wiped out your town and you might not have medical supplies available...


6 posted on 09/25/2005 12:23:25 PM PDT by dandelion
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To: dandelion

Beaumont wasn't wiped out. It did suffer pretty substantial damage. No deaths have been reported in Beaumont accoding to the city paper the Beaumont Enterprise.


7 posted on 09/25/2005 12:29:42 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: kstewskis
What a shame the real "good news" isn't "news" anymore.

In a sense "good news" shouldn't really BE news - it should be just normal activity, and what one would expect. "Bad news" is news because it is out of the ordinary.

I don't need to have my news edited down or sugar coated. I want to know the worst what's happening.

8 posted on 09/25/2005 1:24:31 PM PDT by podkane
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To: debboo
"They took 25 ambulances and many paramedics to be on hand after Rita was finished."

Rita -- are ya finished? Oh yeah, wrong network now.


9 posted on 09/25/2005 1:26:27 PM PDT by jdm
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To: Artemis Webb

Uh, let me know if those care givers showing up for the injured at your next car wreck is good news or not?


10 posted on 09/25/2005 2:04:46 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: debboo

Good news doesn't get ratings. Or so they think. The more horrible, bloody, disgusting, or immoral a story is, the more the media will run with it. If it's a feel good warm puppy story, it's not worth their time.


11 posted on 09/25/2005 2:48:16 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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God bless those who are there to help..I am a voluntary evacuee whose area dodged the bullet and am in Waco..We are without cable and I am almost glad..I can listen to traffic updates on my little radio...(REALLY BAD on 45 the route we took out..) and know that people in east Texas really caught it..along with Louisiana

I say kudos to all who aid , help, stand ready to help, in any way..This Texan appreciates you.


12 posted on 09/25/2005 4:05:27 PM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

Good News and News Worthy are not the same thing. If you have your home inspected for termites and you don't have any it's "good news". However, I don't think that channel 7 should be at your door to report it to your home town as it is not "news worthy".

The fact of the matter is that most calls to 911 are false alarms and no action is taken by the first responders. If those first responders show up and have to save a life or put out a fire it is "news worthy". If they show up and have no work to do then that's "good news." In the case in question you had 25 ambulances standing around with nothing to do. Good news...but not news worthy good news.


13 posted on 09/25/2005 4:20:46 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: Artemis Webb

Whatever


14 posted on 09/25/2005 5:32:49 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: debboo

FoxNews showed about a 30 second clip of our people in Washington at the Support our Troops rally. Then she felt compelled to explain why we were marching so she goes into an explanation of who Cindy Sheehan is and started showing yesterdays moonbat march again. I noticed if the media reports on anything pro America or pro Bush, they always manage to turn the attention back to the liberals.


15 posted on 09/25/2005 5:38:53 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: Artemis Webb
Well I'm not sure that a bunch of staffed ambulances showing up to be at the ready counts as news of either a good or bad nature.

That would be a whole lot more interesting then watching a silly reporter hanging on to a tree while the wind blows and the camera goes back to a blowing sign for the hundredth time in 2 hours.

16 posted on 09/25/2005 5:41:35 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: jdm
Rita -- are ya finished? Oh yeah, wrong network now.

I wonder why she left FoxNews. I always liked her. Shes a lost cause now.

17 posted on 09/25/2005 5:43:12 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: mtbopfuyn
If it's a feel good warm puppy story, it's not worth their time.

They sure did enough of those at the Astrodome after Katrina.

18 posted on 09/25/2005 5:44:48 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: beckysueb
"That would be a whole lot more interesting then watching a silly reporter hanging on to a tree while the wind blows and the camera goes back to a blowing sign for the hundredth time in 2 hours."

Well I can't argue on that one. :)

19 posted on 09/25/2005 5:57:45 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: debboo

Not for nothing, but Tony Blankley now on C-Span2 "After Words" program with Barbara Slavin, USA Today's senior diplomatic editor. My question off topi, is this a fluff title? Is this Slavin a committed MSM drone?


20 posted on 09/25/2005 6:34:28 PM PDT by gadgethead
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