See the water lie on the ground
The reporters, they are getting personal now. There isn’t so much by way of “objectivity” anymore, not for these people who have been at ground zero since the beginning and don’t understand why the ones in Washington are wringing their hands very much and actually doing very little.
“Don’t you guys watch television?” Ted Koppel asked when FEMA director Michael Brown claimed he didn’t know until last Thursday that evacuees were stranded in New Orleans’ convention center.
Anderson Cooper tore into Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu (text transcript here), pointing out that no, he hadn’t heard about the $10 billion supplemental bill Congress had just passed because he’d been at ground zero, walking past dead bodies.
Even some anchors at Fox News are refusing to push the pro-administration spin, and that’s when you know being on-site, watching all of this unfold, has really gotten to the news corps.
It’s about time something did.
Ken said the other day that one of Bush’s statements made him want to punch through the television set. David and I asked him where he’d been hiding, as some of us have been angry for four years now. Remember the motto from around the election? If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.