Tuesday, February 27, 2007
FNC Host Slams Cooper AGAIN Right Along With Other "Far Lefters"
Let's see FNC's O'reilly is picking fights with NBC, a host at MSNBC....heck who ain't he pickin' a fight with. Anyway, it must be in the water as FNC's John Gibson see's to it to keep on bringing up Anderson Cooper on his FNC circus act. Last week Gibson called Cooper snobbish because he was runnin' with Anna Nicole Smith all night, every night, and now he repeats it after Think Progress.org 'attacked' him. I think Gibson is still sore that MSNBC beat him in the ratings one day last week. Anyhow in his "My Word" segment Monday, Gibson once again attacked CNN and AC for wanting to cover other news (including the Iraq war) instead of ANS:
I was criticizing an anchor on another network for his snobby attitude toward anyone. Anyone out there in the audience watching tv who wanted to see Anna Nicole coverage. He said, “I just wanted to scream at them, ‘There’s a war on, there’s a war on, there’s a war on.’”
Well, first, we know there’s a war on. I’ve personally spent hundreds of hours of tv and radio discussing the war.
Secondly, we know the mainstream media represented by this particular anchor guy would like to do whatever they can to make sure the war isn’t successful, that it is always viewed as a failure.
My point was something else. That in my many years of doing the news on tv and radio, I’ve often found myself saying, “Oh, I don’t want to do this story,” because I’ve thought there’s something more important that day, like the anchor guy I was criticizing, and I have found that was always a mistake.
It is news snobbism, by definition. The war is a fine thing to cover. Not my intention to say it’s not. The point I was making is that sometimes, people might want a break from the war, to watch the drama in a story like Anna Nicole, and who am I, or who is news person, to say, “No. I don’t want to do it because it’s beneath me.”
I was criticizing an anchor on another network for his snobby attitude toward anyone. Anyone out there in the audience watching tv who wanted to see Anna Nicole coverage. He said, “I just wanted to scream at them, ‘There’s a war on, there’s a war on, there’s a war on.’”
Well, first, we know there’s a war on. I’ve personally spent hundreds of hours of tv and radio discussing the war.
Secondly, we know the mainstream media represented by this particular anchor guy would like to do whatever they can to make sure the war isn’t successful, that it is always viewed as a failure.
My point was something else. That in my many years of doing the news on tv and radio, I’ve often found myself saying, “Oh, I don’t want to do this story,” because I’ve thought there’s something more important that day, like the anchor guy I was criticizing, and I have found that was always a mistake.
It is news snobbism, by definition. The war is a fine thing to cover. Not my intention to say it’s not. The point I was making is that sometimes, people might want a break from the war, to watch the drama in a story like Anna Nicole, and who am I, or who is news person, to say, “No. I don’t want to do it because it’s beneath me.”
# posted by ATN @ 8:31 PM 
