Posted on 09/07/2005 5:02:53 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
A lot of people are beginning to say that the whole "Geraldo rescues woman" story wasn't what it seems. One of them is Alessandra Stanley at The New York Times. She reports that Rivera "nudged" an Air Force worker out of the way so he could be shown on camera helping a woman in a wheelchair. But Rivera went on The O'Reilly Factor and showed videotape that proved that's not what happened. The NYT has not issued a retraction, and Rivera might sue.
Meanwhile, Stephen Elliott over at Salon says that Rivera made the rescued woman walk from the FOX news van to the heliport twice, so they could get the better shot for the camera. This hasn't been confirmed either.
What do you think? Are people being unfair to Geraldo in this situation?
"The medium is the messge" -- Marshall McLuhan
More to the point, reporters, who for generations have been warned to stay out of the story, have now become the story. And, hey, they always have to look good don't they? What's a little gonzo tweaking here and there? The sheeple can't tell truth from fiction anyhow, can they? I do wonder how much of this crap Roger Ailes will put up with, though.
Marshall McLuhan should have been horsewhipped. That idiotic quote is to journalism what Nietschze was to the Third Reich.
Years ago as a newspaper reporter I recall being assigned to interview a then-prominent TV network talking head. He was very uncomfortable at "becoming the news" rather than simply reporting it. Can you imagine any such reluctance today by most media people (Fox newsies like Brit Hume and perhaps a few other valiant souls excepted)? They all want their "15 minutes of fame," to again quote McLuhan.
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