On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:07 PM, televisiongirl <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:58 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Gawker noted it too, in an article entitled "America's Wrongest >>> Television Critic Strikes Again." Bottom line: It's true that there was no >>> highlight reel on the show. How then, could Alessandra Stanley have stated >>> that there was? "Probably because if you watch the relevant *Today*show >>> segment<http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/tearful-ann-curry-tells-audience-she-is-leaving-as-today-co-host/>online, >>> as opposed to, I don't know, >>> *on television*, it autoplays the highlight reel from Curry's first day >>> after the segment ends. This should be obvious to anyone watching >>> carefully, though, since everyone is wearing different clothes and it's >>> obviously an introductory, rather than a valedictory, segment." >>> >>> >>> http://gawker.com/5922385/americas-wrongest-television-critic-strikes-again?tag=alessandra-stanley >>> >> >> Thanks - that explains it. Not quite as bad I guess as totally dry >> labbing a review, but youtubing it still seems a little bit like cheating - >> especially of the criticism is going to include a focus on what the program >> chose to cover and not cover. > > > > The Times is now trying to explain that Stanley was given too many > assignments that day - she also had to cover the cable news reaction to the > Supreme Court decisions. That's bogus because Curry's farewell was around > 8:50AM and the Supreme Court decisions started trickling out after 10AM. > Stanley didn't watch it live and didn't even bother to record it. For a > paper with some good reporters who cover television - Carter, Stelter, > Carrr - she's a disaster. > > > > Since the Supreme Court didn't make the decision on Tuesday, everyone knew it was coming on Thursday. The Supreme Court decision is a once in a decade kind of story. Her job would be to watch cable TV coverage before the decision and after the decision. The hard news of the Supreme Court decision overshadows the pop culture significance of Ann Curry. This is a legitimate defense of spreading her too thin. That doesn't mean she doesn't such as TV writer. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
