The Beekeepers Apprentice commented on my previous blog that she had heard a reporter break down on NPR. I didn't catch that but I did see Fox reporter Steve Harrigan fall apart at the seams. The poor guy will probably get fired for being openly sympathetic to the victims.
I'm really not familiar with this reporter - wonder why. He could be another crying Glenn Beck for all I know - another actor, if you will. But I sincerely hope not.
Sounded real.I avoid the TV news in general but when I'm somewhere and Fox is on that Shepard Smith guy seems to be kind of human. Don't know why he'd be there, maybe the FCC requires token humans even at Fox.
ReplyDeleteSheperd Smith used to work for CNN so he had some decent training on being human in times of tragedy.
ReplyDeleteSheperd Smith is one of the good guys. Its horrific, I don't know how anyone could watch and not break down. I wonder if Fox is spending more time airing this story, they didn't in the beginning days.
ReplyDeleteOr, if they're trying to offset the criticism they must have received after Beck's comments. I don't watch Fox, period. I even joined a boycott on FB - and one for Rush. I also wonder why Smith stays there.
ReplyDeleteI don't doubt the authenticity of tears over Haiti. I can't watch it, myself. If I were there, I would cry.
ReplyDeleteIf it was authentic, his career there will be short.
ReplyDeleteJust watching the videos makes me cry - I watched Katrina - all of it, just like all the 9/11 coverage (I worked in the Sears Tower at the time and it was shut down for 3 days) - and it was all horrific. But to know what these people have already suffered, makes this, well, question whether there is a God. (I go back and forth on this a lot.)
ReplyDeleteShepard Smith is one of the only rational people on that network; I think Oso's right - it must be an FCC requirement.
Really horrific newscast. It's hard to imagine a reporter not breaking down, even one from Fox News. Steve Harrigan should at least get lots of job offers after Fox fires him.
ReplyDeleteI don't really think this guy was faking it - how could you in the face of such devastation?
ReplyDeleteI'm like the rest of you and have cried each time I've watched a video. Kept my nose glued to the TV watching every moment of 9/11 and Katrina and sobbed the whole time. If I were younger I'd do my best to get to Haiti. Alas, that won't happen now.
I'm with you Lisa G. I've been wrestling with the same thing.
He seems like a good guy, but one of these days he might be beaned real bad by one of Fox's whizzing and whirling onscreen logos.
ReplyDeleteI think that happened way too many times to Glenn Beck.