CNN producer decides the petulant whining of his reporter colleagues is a story.
By bluegal Tuesday Mar 04, 2008 8:06pm
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As Shakespeare's Sister would point out, "Someone Call the Waaaaaaaahhhmbulance!" Reporters have to stand in line for their hotel keys? No time to relax? Mr. Welch, you're on camera for CNN. If you don't like it, I can think of, oh, fifteen hundred people off the top of my head who would like your job. When CNN anchor Candy Crowley follows up your story with "don't you believe a word of it." I think your creativity, not to mention your credentials, are being questioned.
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Gosh...and there's so much more newsworthy goings on in South America...FIRST???
Never have I witnessed such suffering.........................(fart).
Could this specimen off my rather awful blog be a more realistic example of blogosphere journalism?
Anyone know why every post with redlasso clips freezes my computer? Anyone else have that problem?
can you imagine these reporters having to report as their predecessors did in say wwII?
Wow....that's what I used to think in Iraq, how irritating it is after a 15 to 18 hour day to stand in line for my hotel room keys.
And no points either.....THE HORROR!!!!!
Yep, they must be our best and brightest.
Just when you thought you've seen it all.
What no comfy chairs as well?
sigh
No wonder everything's going to Hell, the watchdogs are spoiled whiny pussies.
I just want you to know that I could have been first but I loaded C+L and then checked another website and was reading and reading and even responded to something. I then looked at something else and low and behold when I went back to C+L I noticed that there were no comments on the top story. Well of course that was just a few short minutes ago but long enough for me to miss the "first" moniker. I just wanted you to know that. I should have been first!!! I could have been a contender
yeah....they would never show the chain smokin' booze hound racists that fall off the straight talk express.
The reporters have it bad, they have to write down what they are told to write and pass it off as their own work.
Blah Blah boring nothing but creativity of a rightwinger's imagination. I feel for them!
Hey, bub, next time I'm knee-deep in mud pouring concrete while the rain falls horizontally I'll shed a tear for you.
Know wonder the corporate press is so out of touch. They have no perspective.
ConcernedCanuck @ 4:
Could be your browser doesn't support it. Maybe you need to update it.
where the fuck is dr gonzo when you need him??
damn it hunter....why did you have to go and off yourself....
there is some mighty fine game here to shoot
Who cares about their "troubles", let alone their whining. Try doing some journalism instead of cheerleading or puppeteering.
I spent 700 days in Iraq over the period of 3 years working 20 hour days. Hey reporter, do you know how frustrating that is. Jackass.
This is reporting in America today. Gone are the real reporters doing the right thing for the American people. Now a bunch of empty talking heads earning big bucks for the crap they spread. Charming!
ConcernedCanuck @ 4:
Me too, although not every time. I can play the video fine when it doesn't freeze.
Whining scumbags. Do your f#####g jobs.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 14:
Gonzo jounalism lives. You just have to look for it. But you're here, so you're probably already used to looking for quality journalism.
I love my job. But I bitch about it all the time. Who doesn't?
This is a non-story. Give me a break. It's freakin' filler.
Wake up.
Excuse me "Reporters"? These people are not reporters or journalists. More factual title is..GOP Talking Point Puppets.
The metairony of this story is delicious :)
Reporters reporting about reporting.
I. don't. care.
It's your job. Get over it or get a new job.
Please.
It's a tough world out there for brown nosing corporate suckups.
dear stupid people:
this is NOT news. What IS NEWS?
1. Oil closed at a record high, over $104 bbl
2. Euro closed at an all time high v. the dollar : $1.53
3. USA Home heating oil closed at the highest price on record, $2.91 gal
4. Crude oil inventories were supposed to rise, but were found *down* 3 million bbl
5. Gold closed at its highest price, ever: $995.20 oz.
Those are five headlines ALL ON THE SAME DAY that have dramatic importance to our daily lives, but C&L would rather bark about some stupid propaganda shill's boneheadedness.
Good move Butch. Lemme know how that works out for ya.
[Dear afterburner, please, feel free to start your own blog. Then you can pick the stories-Sitemonitor]
web_geek @ 23:
And BTW, you're not doing such a great job of reporting as it is.
*Can we get a reality check in aisle five?!?!?!?*
Give that man the Barbara Bush award for Suffering
I cant remember last time I saw real reporting on CNN......they have repeaters, the pentagons Barbi Starr is the woooorst eeeeever!
ConcernedCanuck @ 4:
YES! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. I have to use firefox just for C&L and open comments in it's own window. Pain in the tookus.
The United States has murdered more than 100 suspected terrorists while interrogating them. Everyone else in the world knows about this and hates the US for it.
Most US Americans don't know about it because to our news media it's far more newsworthy when a reporter has to wait in line to check in to a luxury hotel room.
This intrepid reporter should be thankful he’s not assigned to the Clinton campaign. Those lucky reporters get to do their jobs (and eat) in men’s bathrooms.
I didn't know candidates had to feed and house the press. Why don't the reporters' own bosses feed and house them? No wonder it takes multiple millions of dollars to campaign! Am I misunderstanding the video?
Strawberrybitch @ 29:
You should use Firefox all the time. *wink*
(Just sayin')
(PS - I'm a daily reader, and I hope to become a more frequent poster. I was a regular of the Al Franken blog crew on Air America. Please be nice!)
Welcome web geek. Yeah, I use Firefox all the time, too. Just like it. - BG
Snowball @ 13:
I have the latest up to date IE.........hmmmm........maybe Firefox?
web_geek @ 33:
Welcome!
ConcernedCanuck @ 35:
Thanks ConcernedCanuck! I've read you often.
Your welcome means a lot to me.
I hope I get the same from everyone else.
(I guess I should stop lurking, eh?) Just dive in, I suppose. :lol:
Ugh... I can't even do a laugh here.
:-)
Nope. :down:
I'll try next time.
[The smilies are disabled. They were causing even slower loads and more freezing-Sitemonitor]
Jeez, just think how much harder their lives would be if they ever stopped to investigate, or fact check.
What a bunch of whining, spoiled pussies! Hey, it's not the candidates job to ensure the comfort of the prima donnas in the press corp. Shit! Send these whiners to Iraq and see how the accomodations are (and no candyassed Green Zone assignment for you - you go out in the field with the troops). If the newsroom budget doesn't allow for a trip to Iraq, how about assigning these whining crybabies to a typical inner city hospital ER, let 'em cover a 36 hour shift with your typical ER doctor or nurse. Hey overpaid tv reporter! Whine and cheese is on the menu tonight, motherfucker! Sorry for the rather coarse tone of my post, but with all of the suffering going on in the world; with average Americans having to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet, I just have no - ZERO - NADA patience for this shit.
sassafra @ 5:
The people who covered previous wars or news in general (people like E.R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and yes, even Dan Rather) were JOURNALISTS. What that means is they earned their bones working their way up in NEWSROOMS. What's on TV now are a bunch of pretty boys and girls who, despite numerous alcohol induced hangovers, managed to snag themselves a degree in Communications. They think they look pretty hot, so they send in their headshots to the network of their choice and, lo and behold!, they're on TEEVEE reading what somebody else wrote for them. These people are frustrated actors and actresses - not journalists. Don Henley said it best in the song "Dirty Laundry":
Could've been an actor but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear..."
The whinieness that these supposed newscasters carry on with makes me just want to shut off my TeeVee. (Which I'm gonna do tonight...phhht.) Look, if you have a hard time covering a campaign here in the States, in a "Free Country" how could you ever manage the moxie to cover Bush's Campaign to Free the World?
Wankers. They should go back to J-school. Or 4th grade.
I can think of many much smarter bloggers that would love that gig.
Go get a job digging ditches in the rain then. "Jeeze!" Imagine having to wait in line for your key. Wow! Don't they know how big and important YOU ARE????!
Oh the humanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnS49c9KZw8
I hate to seem dense, but why don't they let the reporters keep their points? Does the campaign pay for the rooms for the reporters? I would think the media outlets would pay for the rooms for their own reporters and, if that's the case, then they should be able to keep the points. If the campaign pays for the rooms, then the campaign can do whatever they want.
Candy Crowley looks well-fed so life must sucks you didn't get any fancy chicken dinners. Bunch of yuppies reporters. If you hate your job, quit, and work for Donald Trump.
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A news man doing a news story on the difficulties of being a newsman.
Well, I have some news for them:
IF IT'S TOO DIFFICULT...
QUIT!
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Paris Hilton would be ashamed of these reporters.
Strawberrybitch @ 30:
What is IE?
Whining CNN parrots are just preparing for their inevitable move to Faux.
This is the contrast between reporting on the two democrats as opposed to McCain. McCain has learned that showing favoritism towards the press rather than disdain will get you more positive coverage. NO Democrat has yet to learn that. Why do you think McCain threw that bar-b-que for them? Do you really think he's just being social? Let's get real. How about that story on the NYT? How far did the press let it go? They squashed it within two days. We ALL know there's more to that story, but the press isn't going to allow their man to be damaged. How far do you think the scandals during President Clinton's term would've gone had he not had a piss poor relationship with the press? Clinton and Obama would do well to pay attention to how they and their staff treats the press that covers them on a daily basis. The press can crown you and they can crush you. JUST REMEMBER AL GORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, it's just horrible doing the job of a reporter on the campaign trail. Why it makes the job of a laborer on a construction seem like a cakewalk in comparison. Or the regular daily humiliations and grind most people feel on their jobs day after day after day. Not to mention the fear they will lose their health insurance (if they have any) or get sick at all. Not to mention they're lucky if they have two weeks of pto for the whole year. Yeah, the job of a reporter on the political beat is sure rough.
Afterburner wrote:
Then the sitemonitor wrote:
And I, the little Tweakerbell, spake thusly:
Sitemonitor: afterburner's writing shows, well, that he's a bit of a dick, but, sadly: he's correct, and your response is really pretty sad. C&L frequently pisses all over Fox and other news outlets for their lack of focus on the news, but when someone calls you on the same, all you can say is "get your own blog"? Say whaaa? Fine, C&L get your own network! See? That pissing contest doesn't scale very well, does it, now? Afterburner's dickheadedness notwithstanding, his fundamental point is correct, and it is one worth heeding: focus on the news. I looked up Afterburner's statements, and he's correct: all those things DID happen yesterday, but they were nowher to be found on C&L because C&L took it's eyes off the ball because of the drama of the Dem primary.
I, under another name, do have a blog, but no one reads it. I only have time to really post to it about once a week. Most people are like that. I don't know if Afterburner does or doesn't have a blog. But, all things being equal, he's probably strapped for time too - that's why he (I'm assuming afterburner's a he - a macho idea like afterburner is just too junior high school boy-ish of a moniker) comes to places like C&L for the straight dope. So, when C&L puts up non-news for the "over-night" that's one thing - it's a way of saying "good night darlings, see you tomorrow", and that's cool. But otherwise? Nope.
So, yeah - Afterburner smacked you a good one, but I'd ignore his attitude but pay attention to his fact - he was acting as a kind of ersatz ombudsman, and that's important in a fast moving thing like blogs.
Oh - and when checking out Afterburner's headlines via google, I found another blog that did talk about some of these things: the oil drum. check it out. Mostly a bunch of science geeks and peak oil types, but facts are facts...
keep on keepin' on sitemonitor who ever you are...
Tweakerbell @ 54:
With all due respect, the foundation upon which you rest your argument is fallacious. This is not a news blog. Crooks and Liars was started because John Amato was frustrated by the way the media framed the news and what they decided to and to not cover. In that vein, this story is very relevant to what we do.
That's very deep.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 14:
QFT
It's amazing how desperate the media is to show that SNL skit wasn't accurate. They don't love Obama. They're tough. They can be negative. What a waste of energy and airtime.
Holy crap. This is dumbfounding...the standard has finally been set on the most self-absorbed, self-referential, self-aggrandizing piece in the history of journalism. I just got back from a two-week business trip, and nothing -- NOTHING -- this guy listed was something I didn't face. And I'm happy to have a job.
Thank god Candy Crowley called him out on it. That saved the day. But I'm still dumbfounded.
Shall we write to CNN and tell them that Chris Welch and his fellow whiners are suffering so much that they need to take permanent vacations? Give 'em the pink slips.
/oh
//the
///humanity
Oh man, he had to stand in line for his keys! That poor man.
Yeah, I'm crying a river here.
media companies pay the campaign to feed/transport/house the press. all of their expenses are billed back to the media companies. the campaigns arn't saving their own money, but rather saving the media companies money when they do things like scrimp on food or reserve hotel rooms in blocks. just fyi. i'm sure the campaigns would LOVE to spend lots and lots of CNN/FOX's money to make the press happy as clams, but i'm pretty sure the outlets wouldn't love love those bills...
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