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Posted on 01/31/2006 2:11:50 PM PST by JennysCool
Just a note to alert you all to some of the most obvious, juvenile reporting I have ever heard. ABC Radio, reporting the arrival at Andrews Air Force Base of injured ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, referred to them not as "Woodruff and Vogt" but as "Bob and Doug" -- not just once, but three times. The agenda would seem painfully obvious. They want us to think of "Bob and Doug" as friends hurt in that awful Iraq war. Seldom have I heard a report so contrived. Amazing.
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Major problem for the lame media is who will they lead off with tonight. The death of Mrs. King or the return of a couple of reporters.
Great pic!
Who are they?
It's a long, long story.
I have strong opinions about ABC News coverage of the war. They suck at it.
I heard the Bob and Doug reference on Sunday. How dumb of them!
In all fairness though, last evening they managed to do a very positive report on the military medical procedures in play b/n Iraq and Germany US medical facilities. It was one of the few positive stories that ABC News has done on the military in a while, that I have seen.
When Ann Compton does her reporting from the White House I turn the radio off.
Exactly.
Good post.
Maybe it's that George Lakoff "framing" thing. Winning hearts and minds with linguistics...
I understand the duo owe their lives to the superb skills of US military Doctor's who treated them after the "mishap which occurred during an encounter with Iraqi Freedom Fighters".
They're not at all like mercenaries and hoodwinked urban youths sent by King George to sieze Iraqi oil.
You SO "get it". That is the exact mindset of the media and liberals in general.
In DC, you can find liberals in the media that have lived here for years and not know anyone in the media. Thats very hard to do. You almost have to live in a bubble - which they do.
We all know who these guys are, so they use first names instead of last names.
IMHO, it is stretching to find agenda in the use of their first names.
My favorite Bob and Doug line: "Luke! I am your father! Join the darkside you knob!!"
Injured from shrapnel in a game of beer hunter gone wrong...shoulda had on the armored toook (tooque?)
I didn't hear it, but in principle I'm OK with their referring to people they certainly would know personally by their first names. Wouldn't it be a bit phoney to do otherwise? After first mentioning their full names, of course.But I would expect that "Bob and Doug" would publicly maintain respectful nonpatronizing contact with the wounded warriors into whose company they so unfortunately became "embedded."
The death of Coretta Scott King (and I'm sorry she passed) was treated as a major national disaster by NPR today. Their regular liberal programming was interupted by interviews with more liberals expressing their views on her passing.
NPR=liberals interviewing liberals about how great liberal ideas are.
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