--- In [email protected], "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I saw Geraldo Rivera, last night on Fox, have a > > > complete emotional > > > breakdown, holding a baby, and crying for help. > > Give me a break. This goofball will do anything for effect. I'm > not saying it didn't work himself into a little frenzy, but he is > all about ratings. I've seen them leave the camera on for an extra > second or two, after his report. He changes completely.
I didn't see the segment, but I wouldn't put it past him. He's a grandstander from away back. However, apparently he then ripped Sean Hannity a new one when Hannity tried to defend the federal response. To be a real activist journalist almost requires some grandstanding. You wish the motivation to do good were 100 percent pure, but it's more important that the good be done. The normally Bush-boot-licking, right-wing Fox News Channel has been doing some of the very best reporting on cable (or on TV in general, for that matter) in this disaster. Shep Smith, who usually does blow-dried fluff on Fox, has also been doing a fantastic job. Given Fox's rightward bias and their largely right-wing audience, it's tough to make a case that they're exaggerating the federal failure here just for the ratings. The folks back at the anchor desk do try to make the reports from the field seem not quite so dire, but the reporters on the ground just aren't going along with it, to their great credit; and apparently the Fox brass aren't insisting they tone it down, to their credit as well. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
