oh dear, Aaron Brown is getting weary of reporting on Katrina

[donsu]

last nite he was talking about how weary he was getting of day after day reporting on Katrina. and looking forward to the day he doesn't have to talk about any more.

if it was possible to puke on someone through the TV, I would have done it. and I hate puking!

[lonestarnot]

1. send him to NO for the duration of the aftermath!

[RandiFan1290]

2. Send him to the Convention Center

Let him stick his fucking nose in there for a few day and get a good whiff of reality!!

[wli]

3. yet they're not tired of Aruba yet...

They can report for months on a missing white woman for months and months endlessly but they can't report on tens of thousands of dying and dead black people for a week. Right...

[justabob]

4. In fairness

He was speaking of disaster fatigue last night and how emotionally draining it is to watch and be helpless as we watch. I think a great many of us here can relate. I don't presume to know what he is thinking, but I know I will be a lot happier when there is some good news, like the convention center people being fed and evacuated and people stop dropping dead for lack of attention.

[Bumblebee]

5. He said he was afraid people who are watching may be getting weary

not him. He was afraid all the images, because they are so many, will make people somehow immune to the horror of it. He did not say HE was getting weary. We should not start attacking people who are right now actually doing a good job based on misinterpretations of what they said. Last night's show was the best Brown has ever put together, in my memory. He should be encouraged -- positively -- to do more instead of people complaining about something he did not say or do. Let's be careful out there!

[Bozita]

13. more afraid of losing his few Republican viewers

most of those folks in NO are black.

[kevsand]

6. You have completely misinterpreted his remarks.

Aaron Brown has been relentless in his coverage this week of the human tragedy, and he has been unabashed in his criticism of the federal response.

He wasn't saying that he was tired of talking about Katrina as opposed to other stories (as though he were some vapid yuppie frat boy). What he has been saying for several days is that the inadequacies of the planning and response have caused the immediate suffering to go on much longer than it should have, and that the relief should have come much more quickly.

What he's tired of is having to tell the American people that no one has fixed it yet, because that means that people are still suffering. His frustration in that regard has been obvious all week, and is shared by many journalists (Anderson Cooper also comes to mind.)

I think you owe Mr. Brown a public apology.

[donsu]

7. no, I know what he said and how he said it

yes he was talking about the reporters and viewers and he added himself.

reporters in the field may be worn out/burnt out and need a break. reporters in the studio and viewers have no right to be weary while watching people die

[kevsand]

9. But they have every f**king right

to be weary of a complete and total lack of response from the agencies that are charged solely with providing relief to human suffering, and THAT's what he was referring to. I'm weary of an administration that refuses to lift a single god damn finger to help the most vulnerable among us.

This should not be a story yesterday or today because it should have been fixed long ago, and that's what he said, and that's what he meant. You are being entirely unfair to him, and from the other comments here, I'm not the only one who realizes that.

Show me the clip in context, and then try to defend your point.

[Spazito]

8. He was reflecting how weary it is because it is bad and getting

worse, it is getting harder and harder for him to keep his emotions and his anger in check. It was not a comment that he was bored with it.

[MadeinOhio]

10. He should join us in demanding their resignations, EVERY DAY!

http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm

Channel that anger into forcing them from power. :mad:

[kevsand]

11. Here is Brown's full comment from Friday night, in context:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/02/asb.01.html

Friday, September 2, 2005

BROWN: So much of the focus for all of understandable reasons has been on New Orleans, Saint Bernard Parish to the east of New Orleans saw flooding as heavy as any on the map. Many perished in the rising waters. Survival has been difficult. The area is rich with heartbreak. Here's David Mattingly.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The first thing you notice is their eyes. Back in the flood-ravaged St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans, they saw the horror of flood-covered communities and floating bodies.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good-bye Tina.

MATTINGLY: Some of them now barefoot, they come off a Coast Guard ferry clinging to each other or a pet or what little they can carry with them.

JUDY ROME, SURVIVOR: Believe me, this is the most wonderful moment.

RONALD ROME, SURVIVOR: It's a permanent exit of New Orleans. We are not coming back.

J. ROME: We won't be back.

R. ROME: I've been here 55 years, and I'm not coming back.

MATTINGLY: Ronald and Judy Rome and their family, all nine of them, survived for three days stranded on the top floor of their flood home. It wasn't until floodwaters to started to recede, and an empty boat came into view that they all made their escape.

J. ROME: We all loaded in the boat yesterday morning and paddled. We had no way to start the boat, so we paddled the boat as far as we could. And then we got out and we walked the rest of way up to the Mississippi levee.

MATTINGLY: The Rome's refused rescue two days earlier because the boat was too small to take them all. They believe so deeply that they needed to stay together that they were willing to take the risk. But the commitment they made to each other would prove hard to keep.

When they finally reached a shelter, Ronald Rome was the only registered nurse among thousands of refugees. It was more than he could take.

R. ROME: I -- they told me I had no choice, but to work in the medical center that was set up. I worked 22 hours straight with no sleep.

J. ROME: It's all right. It's been hell.

MATTINGLY: The children were affected as well. The oldest two will hardly talk or eat. The youngest has measles.

LINDSEY BOHNE, MOTHER: This is -- my child has -- this is what he owns, a pair of shoes he's got on. That's it. He owns not a single piece of clothing. I don't know whose clothes he even has on.

MATTINGLY: With all of them nearing the breaking point and just minutes away from a bus ride to Texas, the family that had been through so much decided they can't stay together any longer. A daughter and son-in-law were left at the buses while the children were evacuated in a medical helicopter.

This was as far as we could go. The Romes say they will reunite, not knowing when or where. And all vow to never return to the place that brought them so low.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MATTINGLY: At least two members of the family are on their way to San Antonio tonight about just another example of how this entire process is making it difficult for anyone, Aaron, to stick together.

BROWN: Do they -- do they welcome, in a sense, being plopped down in some shelter in San Antonio. Do they believe that their lives will be a little easier, better?

MATTINGLY: You could hear how anxious they were to leave here and to never come back. So in that respect, yes, there is some relief where they're going to be going to some place that's going to be dry, they will possibly sleeping on a bed, possibly be sleeping in air- conditioning and getting regular food again.

That is very encouraging to them. They're already thinking about that next step and that's what's so discouraging at this point is that how do they get back together? And what life do they start together again?

BROWN: I mean it's unimaginable. David, thank you. Nicely done, as you have all week. You've been terrific. Thank you, David Mattingly tonight.

Erica Hill joins us from Atlanta with some of the other news of the day. I worry, I'll be honest, that there's something like disaster fatigue that's -- sets in on all -- on viewers, on the country that you watch this all of this unfold over the week and your heartbreaks again and again. And at some point it's -- it's almost too much, and too sad. And I worry we're reaching that point.

HILL: Well, hopefully -- I don't think you're far off, Aaron. Hopefully there -- the good news is that there also -- as depressing as so much of the news can be, there are those small, little glimmers of hope and some of the stories that our colleagues, and our correspondents have been bringing us have just been these little glimmers of hope to restore your faith in humanity. And so hopefully those will keep everyone interested.

BROWN: We'll latch on to them. You give us the other news. Thank you.

HILL: All right. I'll do that.

[mod mom]

12. I have a different take on Aaron Brown. I felt he showed much compassion

for the victims and total disdain for those supposedly in charge. I think he had a wonderful conversation with Stephanie Tubbs Jones, attempting to get her true point of view. I think what he was attempting to express was the same heavy hearedness and shame that I feel.