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| Drudge Katrina: CNN PRODUCERS TOLD ON-AIR GUESTS: GET ANGRY |
| 2005-09-14 |
| After weeks of intense Katrina coverage from the main press, LA TIMES guru Michael Kinsley divulges that CNN was coaching guests to artificially enhance emotions! Kinsley writes: "The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits, are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A Los Angeles Times colleague of mine, appearing on CNN last week to talk about Katrina, was told by a producer to 'get angry.'" Developing... |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 Rarrrr! Grwollll! GRRRRRRRR! Angry Press? Heh!. Try Angry People AT the press. What a useless organization the press has become. Those mean old natural disasters and the shitstorms people can make out of em. |
| Posted by: closedanger 2005-09-14 23:04 |
| #2 This will die a quiet death, like so many outrages before it. Next. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2005-09-14 01:09 |
| #1 Wow. And I thought no one else would notice. Aaron Brown, Paula Zahn, Anderson Cooper... sometimes it's subtle and you have to be quick to catch it, but it's there. Too bad about Cooper. I actually liked him until his coverage of Katrina revealed him to be a moonbat. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-09-14 00:29 |