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I think she's just following in the footsteps of the greats, like Dan Rather. She's been taught that the news is show business, to get noticed you have to put yourself in dangerous or controversial situations like the UPI cameraman in NO, or on a canoe in 1 ft of water, or filming a Marine shooting of an "unarmed insurgent."

With today's news culture, to film a heroic military or progress in Iraq, or to say something stupid like "the economy actually looks kinda good," you'll never get a mention. Bash Bush, the war, find a protester who thinks the US blew up the levees, death, destruction, we're-all-gonna-die-and-our-country-is-falling-apart....now you're front and center.

Maybe I'm tired, but I think the blame for this awful MSM falls more on the TV producers and the New York Times (who sets the agenda even though normal people think they're cracked). Journalism professors and journalist students, as naturally biased toward the left as they may be (We're gonna save the World!), are teaching and taught how to make a career for themselves. They'd be stupid to try to feed themselves by writing a good story about a (horrors) conservative or Republican. Or that the water is not as deep as it looks.

So, water girl may get shunted aside, but not for a "staged" report...just for getting caught.