[ajolympian2004]

Mike Rosen's 850am KOA webpage: http://www.850koa.com/shows/rosen/index.html

[wvobiwan]

On the Fox Web site they tout Smith's "pull-no-punches, news-with-an-attitude style." I don't want news with an attitude. I just want news. I do like opinion with an attitude, and that's what Bill O'Reilly does so well on Fox.

I heartily second the 'no attitude' comment, but disagree vehemently with Rosen's characterization of BOR. BOR is an opportunist of the first order, with no principles. I stopped watching BOR when he trashed the SwiftVets. Ann Coulter has his number: "BOR immediately takes a position in the middle of any issue, regardless of the right or wrong of it." It's the epitome of cowardice and self-serving cowardice.

[Hennible Cobb]

Where's Mike Rosen coming from on Shep Smith's reporting during Katrina? I noticed nothing yellow, exaggerated, sensationalized or distorted coming from Shep. In the old tradition of journalism, Shep gave us outstanding hard news, as opposed to other sources and networks. He was in the crosshairs of Katrina before it arrived -- and he worked tirelessly in New Orleans till it was over. Shep will get much deserved awards for his professional Katrina reporting. Get outta here, Mike! A lot of Katrina coverage was bad, but not Shep's.

[rogue yam]

This is another in a series of stories about overblown coverage of the Katrina aftermath. Well, fine. But everything that I am hearing from my many contacts in New Orleans is that the looting and lawlessness were even more widespread than reported. Sure, the news celebrities stood around at the Superdome and Convention Center and repeated a bunch of exaggerated and false rumours about what went on at those two sites. But elsewhere, throughout the city, many residents went on a massive crime spree that lasted for days. I think that there is an ongoing effort to cover up the viscious lawlessness of certain New Orleanians, and the complete inability of the N.O.P.D. to control the situation.

[Roux]

The dead bodies were dumped in the river.

[WasDougsLamb]

It didn't need to be hyped with exaggerations and sensationalism from hysterical sources whose unsubstantiated claims were enthusiastically heralded by the mainstream media


---And don't forget that jerk of a mayor getting on TV and saying all that stuff that wasn't really going on because it just fed/fueled the already out of control media.

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