Posted on 02/23/2009 11:21:32 AM PST by Lorianne
Once upon a time, cable channels were embarrassed by on-air outbursts or other anchor antics. Now, some are glad to post the video clips on the Internet as quickly as possible to maximize publicity and Web traffic.
On Thursday, CNBC swiftly uploaded a televised rant by Rick Santelli about President Obama’s plans to address the housing crisis. By doing so, the network injected the reporter’s opinions publicly, and the widely replayed video clip even provoked a response from the White House the next day.
Mr. Santelli is normally a strait-laced newsman; he has reported live from the Chicago Board of Trade for 10 years. But in an appearance on the morning show “Squawk Box” on Thursday, he suggested a “Chicago Tea Party” to protest the administration’s housing plans.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
They can't control information the way they used to. All they can do is misinform their (increasingly smaller)reading public about the way videos 'go viral' and make it seem like its propoganda by MSNBC, instead of millions of viewers making individual choices about where to get their information from multiple sources.
I would say they don't understand the internet and it's power ... but I think they do. And it scares the stuffing out of them.
Like the NYT doesn’t inject reporters’ opinions? Give me a break.
Zero - Jimmy Carter's 2nd Administration on steriods.
...love when Libtards get “miffed”
“They would rather replay an embarrassing segment ....... BRIAN STELTER “
That apparently makes sense to Brian.
Liberals are funny when they’re afraid. Keep it up!
The star of the clip isn’t ONLY Santelli...
It’s the trader who leans over to Santelli at 1:25 and says this:
‘LET’S NOT PAY OUR MORTGAGE, I HEARD IT’S A MORAL HAZARD”.
That dude is PO’d as well. Gotta love honesty.
According to the NYT...“It’s tremendously important for people who rant on cable TV to be responsible and understand what it is they’re talking about,” Mr. Gibbs said. “I feel assured that Mr. Santelli doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
Well in answer to that, Mr. Gibbs, READ the bill....if you would do that you will find that Mr. Santelli DOES know what he is talking about!!!
Are you afraid of someone that can speak up and rally the folks behind him....unlike your rag you say “reports the news fair.”
Obama & Company have called in another favor from The Old Grey Lady.
If Santelli was running the show instead of Picheee... They wouldn't be on the verge of Chapter 11, in fact they would be in the black!!!
Bout time to re-invigorate that Abu Grab story and run it for the 1millionth time above the fold on the front page. That ought to shut those biased reporters down.
The NY Times and Gibbs are so out of touch you cannot see them from. What a bunch of BS.
Hang in there! It won’t be long before that traitor stink rag, the New York Times will finally be putting it’s turncoat yellow belly up in the air!
I’ll have a party the day the wrecking balls start knocking that plague rat traitors concrete rat warren down.
Think on it: All the rats gone from the building..the phones and computerfs all gone..sold to pay creditors..the old desks are all gone too...the loading bays empty and deserted...
;’BOOm...Bang...Crash...I could dsit and watcvh for hours as the wrecking balls bust through the walls, watching the bricks fall...seeing the plumbning exposed and smashed, as the Red Rag hag, formerlyb known as the Old Grey Lady, gets tuned into a gigantic pile of rubble. Recycle *that* you pervert traitor Leftists.
New York Times identifies a HUGE Thought Crime and writes an entire snarky article about it. Dear Leader will be offended. Hope they enjoy themselves while Carlos Slim still allows them to write in English.
Gibbs-the white whale!
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