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NBC's Williams: Journalists' Gloves Off
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Posted on 09/11/2005 11:16:29 AM PDT by jmc1969

NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power.

There were so many angry, even incredulous, questions put to Bush administration officials about the response to Katrina that the Salon Web site compiled a "Reporters Gone Wild" video clip. Tim Russert, Anderson Cooper, Ted Koppel and Shepard Smith were among the stars.

The mute button seemingly in place since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been turned off.

"By dint of the fact that our country was hit we've offered a preponderance of the benefit of the doubt over the past couple of years," the "Nightly News" anchorman said. "Perhaps we've taken something off our fastball and perhaps this is the story that brings a healthy amount of cynicism back to a news media known for it."

Hundreds of reporters, in all media, did heroic work on the Gulf Coast in the deadly storm's aftermath. None arguably was as financially and symbolically important to his company as the job turned in by Williams.

Williams said he sensed trouble brewing already that Sunday, Aug. 28. At the Superdome, he saw National Guardsman barking orders at people seeking shelter, and patting down small children and the elderly for weapons. The crowd was angry about being forced to stand in line in the rain even though there was a large overhang a few yards away, he said.

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1 posted on 09/11/2005 11:16:31 AM PDT by jmc1969
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What is he smoking??? Journalist have been attacking George Bush since the moment he took office.


2 posted on 09/11/2005 11:18:07 AM PDT by msnimje (CNN - Constant Negative Nonsense)
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"deference to people in power..."

YEAH, RIGHT.


3 posted on 09/11/2005 11:18:43 AM PDT by Brilliant
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NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people DEMOCRATS in power.

There, I fixed the post for you.

4 posted on 09/11/2005 11:19:52 AM PDT by Chuck54 (Confirm justice Roberts!)
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To: jmc1969
Mute button??

HA!

5 posted on 09/11/2005 11:20:34 AM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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"...deference to people in power."

Piffle. They've been absolutely ugly to conservatives since 2000.

Does he mean Blanco and the Mayor? Doubt it.

Why would the media bash their own backers?


6 posted on 09/11/2005 11:20:44 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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Oh right....forged CBS memos, etc etc.

Are journalists really this stupid? I must say, I knew they were spewing leftist propaganda, but I respected their intelligence prior to the 2000 election.

Now I realize how incompetent and over-rated they are. Watergate elevated them to a position they did not deserve. They are mere hacks - every day the bloggers expose just how lazy and incompetent they are.


7 posted on 09/11/2005 11:20:55 AM PDT by Fenris6 (3 Purple Hearts in 4 months w/o missing a day of work? He's either John Rambo or a Fraud)
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Network news died along time ago. It is now NETWORK POLITICS.


8 posted on 09/11/2005 11:21:04 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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"Williams said he's focused on a story that will preoccupy the country for many months and probably play a key role in deciding the nation's next president."

Liberal MSM code for, "Can we damage the republicans enough to get Hillary in?"

Watch for the venom in the MSM to match DU and moveon. They hate republicans, they HATE Bush, and they hate you too, if you are a white, traditional, conservative.


9 posted on 09/11/2005 11:21:16 AM PDT by I still care (America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
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The journalist did NOT take their gloves off, nor set down their mikes and cameras. They were THERE and did nothing to assist, only capitalizing on other's plight and complain about the feds not showing up.


10 posted on 09/11/2005 11:21:23 AM PDT by SouthTexas
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How about if they take their pc gloves off and question (attack) Nagin, Blanco, Landrieu, and all the other democrats the way they have gone after Bush and his administration?
11 posted on 09/11/2005 11:22:32 AM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!!!)
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NBC's Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power.

Congratulations, sir, you are Clueless Twit of the Day.

12 posted on 09/11/2005 11:23:22 AM PDT by dighton
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To: jmc1969
Why should any reporter shill for the DNC ?

They should BUY AN ADD, just like everyone else.

13 posted on 09/11/2005 11:23:49 AM PDT by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans.)
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To: jmc1969

What a bunch of bunk. "Mute button is off", please. "Journalists" really do think very little of the American people with this crap.


14 posted on 09/11/2005 11:24:16 AM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: msnimje

"...Journalist have been attacking George Bush since the moment he took office...."

Journalist have been attacking George Bush since BEFORE he took office.


15 posted on 09/11/2005 11:24:41 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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Has this wonderfully adept reporter picked up the phone and called the Red Cross yet?

He could then get the answer to why those people in the dome had no food and water.

But that doesn't fit the "deference" you show to the Prez, does it?


16 posted on 09/11/2005 11:24:59 AM PDT by digger48
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To: jmc1969

Salon's Reporters Gone Wild ~ http://anon.salon.speedera.net/anon.salon/reporter_gone_wild.mov


17 posted on 09/11/2005 11:25:59 AM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: jmc1969

I want to see the "Gloves Off" approach to Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin.


18 posted on 09/11/2005 11:26:17 AM PDT by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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oh yea. I bet Williams considers life of people shooting each other the same as the life of his wife. Oh yeah!!! Ratings rule!!!!


19 posted on 09/11/2005 11:26:24 AM PDT by Gracey
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To: msnimje; jmc1969; Chuck54
America is not simply made of "voters", but of self-identified Republicans and Democrats.

"Independent" really just means indecisive, or even apathetic.

20 posted on 09/11/2005 11:26:55 AM PDT by SteveMcKing ("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
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