CNN PRODUCERS TOLD ON-AIR GUESTS: GET ANGRY (Drudge)

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[slowhand520]

CNN PRODUCERS TOLD ON-AIR GUESTS:Ê GET ANGRY Mon Sep 12 2005 12:42:11 ET

After weeks of over-the-top Katrina coverage from the mainstream media, LA TIMES'S oped guru Michael Kinsley divulges that CNN has been coaching guests to artificially enhance their on-air emotions!

The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits, are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A Los Angeles Times colleague of mine, appearing on CNN last week to talk about Katrina, was told by a producer to "get angry."

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[Steve_Seattle]

CNN should have hired Jason Alexander and Jerry Stiller, put them in disguises, and interviewed them as outraged NO citizens. They are MASTERS of comedic rage.

[andy58-in-nh]

Ben Stein has it exactly right: the real story is that the mainstream media rioted.

[GOP_1900AD]

Celine Dion perchance? ...

[FlipWilson]

Prior to Gulf War I in 1991, I was in Berlin. There was an anti-war protest going on, which we decided to go an make fun of. Lo and behold, there was a CNN crew "interviewing" protestors. Nothing out of the ordinary, except we noticed that they were holding up que cards for the protestors to read from. Pathetic, but enlightening.

[RoseofTexas]

I'M SHOCKED! Truly Uruly Shocked!!!

[sarcasm]

[RoseofTexas]

I read this one on another post...... Cadaver News Network!

[blues_guitarist]

During the initial coverage of the storm and its aftermath I was switching between FOX, m$nbc, and sin-nn. Once the flooding and looting started it was evident that m$nbc & sin-nn were going out of their way to instigate a government conspiracy.

At one point m$nbc keep showing clips of people yelling and chanting to the cameras. My first, and continued reaction is that this was if not staged, certainly directed.

[OKIEDOC]

CNN is just despicable.

How many times do these biased people have to be caught in a slithery net before they become totally irreverent to the truth.

Someone in authority needs to check out the antics of Parish President Broussard and his shameful crying spell on Meet The Press.

Was it staged by Tim Russert and his producers to milk public emotion for an agenda including better ratings.

Why didn't Russert call Broussard on his obvious lies.

Russert need to and owes the American television audience an apology.

CNN, CBS, PMSNBC, NBC, ABC, PBS will do what ever it can to garner ratings and that include distorting the truth in stories.

[Anti-MSM]

[brytlea]

Of course, that is assuming they are journalists. Which as far as I can tell are as rare on tv news as republicans in Palm Beach County.
susie

[A CA Guy]

They wanted to get their ratings out of the toilet I guess.

Won't and didn't work! :-)

[OKIEDOC]

LOL, Good analogy.

[penelopesire]

"have to agree just about all of the reporting was over the top, I had to stop watching the coverage."

And all the while the news MAKERS in the media were screaming about people starving and dying because they had no water or food we at home could see koolers, gatorade, food, etc. etc. etc. After they were evacuated the streets were literally covered with food wrapers, bottles, diapers, koolers, whiskey, etc. etc. etc. but the media seemed only to be able to photograph the refuse from 10,000 feet. Go figure.

[everlast]

Question: How many people died as a result of the heat wave?

Klinenberg: In 1995 there were no uniform standards for determining a "heat related death," so officials had to develop them. Edmund Donoghue, Cook County's chief medical examiner, used state-of-the-art criteria to report 465 heat-related deaths for the heat wave week and 521 heat deaths for the month of July. But Mayor Richard M. Daley challenged these findings. "It's hot," the mayor told the media. "But let's not blow it out of proportion. . . . Every day people die of natural causes. You cannot claim that everybody who has died in the last eight or nine days dies of heat. Then everybody in the summer that dies will die of heat." Many local journalists shared Daley's skepticism, and before long the city was mired in a callous debate over whether the so-called heat deaths were—to use the term that recurred at the time—"really real."

www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443213in.html

[OKIEDOC]

Aaron Brown makes me want to scratch my finger nails down a grade school blackboard.

I think that CNN advertisers should have to pay me to listen to him whine on and on about things he obviously does not know anything about.

Does he have to squat to pee??????????

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Media making/faking the news again, hmm? Well, they can all go to hell because their crap always seems to backfire on them as of late. GWB has the absolute highest power protecting him from any lasting damage caused by the deceitful slings and arrows of the liberals.

[longtermmemmory]

well it is easy to come in firt in a 1 horse horserace.

CNN is generaly the ONLY voice from the USA abroad.

There is no other voice to trust more. (not counting the voice of common sense.)

[nk_47]

Chicken Noodle News!

[Republican Red]

Brousard is the Parrish President (I think Jefferson) who gave an interview that was shown on Meet the Press and shown CNN over and over.

He claimed that a friends mother was in her house calling for help and help never came. He was quite dramatic crying in the camera that "they said help would be there on Tuesday, it never came and I told moma to hold on help would be there on Wednesday and help never came etc..... He cried and ranted.

Turns out emergency personnel went to the ladies house right after the storm and tried to get her out but the lady refused to leave. The emergency people have papers signed that she refused to leave.

Russert and CNN never corrected the story.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Actually, my husband and I saw Juan Williams take on Michael Eric Dyson, who wrote "Is Bill Cosby Right: Or Has The Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?" on the issue of race in the Katrina disaster. He actually went to bat for the Bush administration in response to all the nonsense that the black population of NO was left to suffer and die because of racism. He really knocked Dyson down for his allegations. This was on FOX. We've been wondering how he can sit there and hear so much good reasoning from the conservative pundits he goes up against every night without learning anything....maybe he's starting to. Or maybe that's wishful thinking on our part!