Wrapping up the Hurricane coverage: Take 7
Linda Stasi in the New York Post….
Make no mistake about the on-screen talent that they sent out there yesterday. It was mostly the A-list stars — FNC’s Shepard Smith, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Miles O’Brien, NBC anchorman Brian Williams — probably in fear of a repeat of the disastrous coverage that immediately followed the tsunami.
These days, the next best thing (career-wise anyway) to reporting in a bush jacket in a war zone is getting pelted by the gale-force rains under a swinging gas-station sign.
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FNC’s Smith was in the French Quarter reporting from a third-floor balcony that “the storm has subsided, but it’s still too dangerous to come out!” — then he did.
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It was all good. And to Harrigan, who at one point during his drenching yesterday said, “People are asking me what the storm surge is going to do,” I’d say that a storm surge can get a guy a raise, that’s what.
You had to be in it to win it.
