Captain Woodrow Cahill, SASS # 54363 Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Just caught a news report from Libya. Reporter is interviewing one of the rebels in Tripoli who is holding an AK-47 and standing by a truck with a Russian heavy machine gun mounted in the bed and several crates of ammunition. The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" Stooopid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Just caught a news report from Libya. Reporter is interviewing one of the rebels in Tripoli who is holding an AK-47 and standing by a truck with a Russian heavy machine gun mounted in the bed and several crates of ammunition. The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" Stooopid. Yes, that is my understanding also. Reporters sometimes know the process of reporting, but there are so many kinds of events they report on, and so many professions to report about, that they usually don't know much about what they're reporting. PLUS Remember Lois Lane with Perry White? Perry White tells her, "Reporters don't get great stories; reporters make stories great." I see this all the time, reporters trying to make five into ten, apples into orchards, etc. And when they get it wrong, they then try to make oranges into apple orchards.... What a mess. Sorry, though, for good ones. I don't mean to decry the whole lot. There are good ones. But I think Perry White was right, as in the end, it's a business, and it's about ratings or sales..... IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Just caught a news report from Libya. Reporter is interviewing one of the rebels in Tripoli who is holding an AK-47 and standing by a truck with a Russian heavy machine gun mounted in the bed and several crates of ammunition. The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" Stooopid. "Something for rabbits." Bob Valdez in Valdez Is Coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 There are reporters and there are War Correspondents. We have a glut of the former and a real lack of the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Scatterbrain Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" Pheasant hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunt Jen Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" Stooopid. "Well, uh, you see, there's this bank behind enemy lines, and I know this guy with his own personal tank, and this other guy Don Rickles who runs artilery, and uh— Oh! and I've also seen The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Edward R. Murrow and Ernie Pile come to mind. Walter Cronkite made the news interesting. Rick Leventhal on Fox News did a pretty good job in Iraq. Other than that, ???? Well, there was this one guy on CBS. What was his name, Blabber, Blather.... oh yeah, Rather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Edward R. Murrow and Ernie Pile come to mind. Walter Cronkite made the news interesting. Rick Leventhal on Fox News did a pretty good job in Iraq. Other than that, ???? Well, there was this one guy on CBS. What was his name, Blabber, Blather.... oh yeah, Rather. Crazy as an outhouse rat that boy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Woodrow Cahill, SASS # 54363 Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Other than that, ???? Well, there was this one guy on CBS. What was his name, Blabber, Blather.... oh yeah, Rather. He was (and still is) a total jackass. I used to work at a CBS station, and during the famous OJ Slow Speed Chase he was "reporting" along with some other mug. OJ pulls into his driveway, and they're commenting on what's happening. Danny Boy gets all excited and starts hollering "Look! I see something at the back of the Bronco!" His cohort says "Dan ... that's the spare tire". We thought so little of him, we had a bumper sticker in the tech area that read "CBS News ... Rather Biased". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Crazy as an outhouse rat that boy! The unfortunate result of growing up in the shadow of one of the best TV newsman of the period, Walter Cronkite. Dan never quite got over the fact that his mentor was a serious, thinking man, and he was just a self-promoting popinjay. If the facts are not exciting enough, make up some that are. Nothing is as disappointing in the last century as the decline of journalism. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mean Matt McCord, SASS #24683 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Just caught a news report from Libya. Reporter is interviewing one of the rebels in Tripoli who is holding an AK-47 and standing by a truck with a Russian heavy machine gun mounted in the bed and several crates of ammunition. The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" Stooopid. The rebel should have looked at him and said, "Shhhhhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting Qadaffi's. Eheheheheheheh!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Quentin Quale, Esq. SASS 9953 Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 They were even dumb enough to declare Tripoli "secure" and report the capture of Khadafi's two sons. Well, not exactly. The "fat lady" ain't near to singing yet in this opera. SQQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Just caught a news report from Libya. Reporter is interviewing one of the rebels in Tripoli who is holding an AK-47 and standing by a truck with a Russian heavy machine gun mounted in the bed and several crates of ammunition. The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" Stooopid. I heard the rebel answered the reporter, here's the translation; "We bought all this ammo just before Obama was elected because we were fearful that we wouldn't be able to buy it after he won office. Now we can't sell it for more than we bought it for, so we are giving it back....one bullet at a time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunner Gatlin, SASS 10274L Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 The reporter asks the guy "What do you need all that for?" "We are pickers and this is adding to our collection" GG ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheriff Oso, SASS #57788L Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 That is precisely why I refer to them reduntly as stoopid reporters. Producers are no better. You can lead a producer to a story, but you can't make the read (run) it! My all time favorite dumb reporter question followed a plane crash. The "reporter" asked the NTSB spokesface "What was the plane's altitude at the time of the carsh". With a perfectly straight face came the answer, "just about ground level I think". Your really can't fix stoopid (no matter how hard ya try!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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