Bridge Collapse: Van Susteren on the scene…
Thursday afternoon Greta Van Susteren joined FOX affiliate KMSP to get an aerial view of the damage to the bridge and surrounding areas…
The TV does very much to telling the story, but there’s nothing like your bare eyes. And when you sit in this helicopter and you look down at this carnage, it is like something you’ve never seen before. You see how a matter of seconds, whether you sped up past a car ten minutes earlier, could make a difference whether your car is in the river and whether you are dead or alive.
how reassuring and credible. just makes fnc look back sending a journalist wannabe to do real news. she should stick to the tabloid stuff.
Comment by Harry — August 3, 2007 @ 8:27 am
Would you please translate that into English?
Comment by Amused — August 3, 2007 @ 8:39 am
“The TV does very much to telling the story, but there’s nothing like your bare eyes.
This seriously sounds like something an english-as-a-second-language speaker would say.
Comment by Arthur — August 3, 2007 @ 8:43 am
I was referring to Harry.
Comment by Amused — August 3, 2007 @ 8:59 am
Ah, I see the *great* Greta Holloway riding shotgun in a chopper flexing her investigative expertise.. But, will this showboating somehow translate into discussing why we send billions to other countries in lieu of fixing our decaying infrastructure?
Comment by Terance — August 3, 2007 @ 9:11 am
Greta isn’t an elected or appointed government official, so why are you trying to put this on her, Terance?
Comment by Amused — August 3, 2007 @ 9:48 am
#4 - I know you were. I however was referring to Greta.
#6 - Terrence said: “will this showboating somehow translate into discussing why we send billions to other countries in lieu of fixing our decaying infrastructure?”
Yes, fixing infrastructure is the government’s job. DISCUSSING, however, is Greta’s and what she chooses to discuss (or not) may be informative of her particular biases.
Comment by Arthur — August 3, 2007 @ 10:03 am
Well, Amused, Greta is on the #1 cable news network, right? So, if she isn’t going to raise the issue, then who will? I would like to see her tackle this problem with the same tenacity given towards one missing Alabama girl. Ya know, 5 days a week, unannounced visits to query the lawmakers, getting the word out that those in charge have been neglecting the issue.
Comment by Terance — August 3, 2007 @ 10:14 am
Terance: For now the story in Minneapolis is finding bodies, getting accounts from witnesses and seeing how the survivors are doing. It is also why the bridge failed although that probably won’t be confirmed for months. “Raising issues” about infrastructure spending and budgets is opinion and analysis.
Your post reminds me of that Aaron Brown interview a few weeks ago about Hurricane Katrina. The main story of Katrina was the destruction caused by the storm, rescuing survivors and resettling other victims. It was not Brown’s “opinion” that the Bush Administration didn’t care.
And Terance, in a nutshell, this is why so many Americans have abandoned the mainstream media. They know the difference between news and opinion and are sick and tired of the latter being passed off as the former.
Comment by Ira — August 3, 2007 @ 1:43 pm