Bridge Collapse: FNC Minnesotans react…
As noted yesterday, FNC’s Gretchen Carlson came from Minnesota. So did Lauren Green. Both were brought in last night to give their thoughts on the tragedy…
Lauren Green
My mother just called me about 15 minutes ago, woke me up, and said ‘we’re ok’, I said what do you mean ‘we’re ok’. She said don’t you know about the bridge and immediately I woke up. I’m still in shock because my family has been calling saying everyone is ok. My mother told me that she had just been on the bridge earlier today during that construction, and she said ‘this is really bad. All this construction, all this rumbling, but thought nothing of it and then later today she turned on the news and saw that the bridge had just collapsed. I am in shock because I realize that in the space of a few hours, my mother might have been on that bridge. That’s how close this was to me.
Gretchen Carlson
This is a road that I have traveled probably hundreds of times since I was a kid there.
I happened to see this last night as it was developing and I realize many people do not watch TV on a summer evening. Most importantly for a breaking story, Fox kicked CNN’s butt around the block a few times, at least in the first hour. I actually started out watching CNN but their visuals were terrible. One shaky long distance shot where you couldn’t even ses what happened to the bridge. I flipped over to Fox and was amazed at the visuals they had which immediately showed the devastation. They had both ground and air shots and were all over it. The powers that be at CNN must have been gnashing their teeth in a major way
over what Fox had on their air. I guess Fox just is able to react more quickly with their local afiliates than CNN or CNN’s afiliate in Minneapolis was really dropping the ball. In any cas, Fox owned the first hour of coverage.
Comment by PF — August 2, 2007 @ 10:46 am