TV Newser: Aide burned Bush a DVD of Brian Williams' Katrina coverage

[DeepModem Mom]

Monday, Aug 28
A Year Of Katrina: "We Were Witnesses"


(mediabistro.com)
Brian Williams in New Orleans

....Williams was inside the Superdome for the height of the hurricane. He left the shelter to anchor Monday's Nightly News. He said the vacuum of information in New Orleans was "appalling."

"To this day, I have never received an appropriate answer as to why, in a city with no information, they couldn't have simply hired a plane to tow a banner with information on where to go. It would have been the only aircraft over the city, the only source of noise. People would have looked up and word would have spread like wildfire," he says.

Instead, a disaster of biblical proportions unfolded.

"I think the despair set in around Thursday," Williams says. "I later learned that our broadcast that night prompted a call to the president by an aide in the West Wing asking if he was watching." (He apparently wasn't; an aide burned Bush a DVD of the coverage.)...

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"I don't think there has been a story better told by television"....(Williams) explains: "When we put our minds to it, we can cover a story unlike any other medium. We still have a vital civic role. We've got to remember, we report to the folks in our audience. We serve them. We have our role as watchdogs, keeping government officials' feet to the fire. It's undiminished; it has never changed. People say we lost our voice because of what may have been less than aggressive coverage of the runup to the war. I say we've always had it. This just made us first responders. We beat the first responders. We were witnesses. We were witnesses to a colossal disaster and a botched response. And that's what happened."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/a_year_of_katrina/a_year_of_katrina_we_were_witnesses_42831.asp

[Lerkfish]

1. instead, they should have burned Spike Lee's HBO documentary

that's what he REALLY needs to watch.

[hlthe2b]

2. Actually, they should have burned...

Oh, never mind... :evilgrin:

[Howardx]

3. copyright infringement!

n/t

[Ian David]

4. He's saying fake stories of snipers and mass-rapes was a public service?

And who was the dickhead who said they could see daylight through a hole in the roof of The Superdome?

Oh, yeah. TV News did a heckuva job covering this.

Thanks to their false sniper reports, the restoration of telephone and cellular service into the area was seriously delayed, costing lives.

[orwell]

5. A little more...

...backslapping for the MSM. They need all the help they can get. No wonder they love Bush. He is the only one more incompetent than them.

And now, back to the Jon Benet debacle, already in progress...