... you were in New Orleans. The fact of the matter is Aaron Brown in New York was achoring some very devastating coverage. He was tying it all together. Something you as an achor can't seem to do. Perhaps that newspaper business experience he and David Bohrman have actually means something.
At any rate, Anderson, the point here is that 'you ain't all that.' The 'draw' by the public into the Katrina coverage by CNN was spawned by Aaron and Jenanne Meserve. I told them where to look. Jeanne never anticipated that I was more than correct in the harsh reality she found.
I noticed that Jeanne Meserve never co-anchored "NewsNight" and she has yet to realize a two hour program dedicated to real news.
By the way, when one realizes the reality of that night in New Orleans when a dedicated Meserve team risked their lives to bring the beginnings of a harsh reality to this coutnry, Mayor Nagin has every right and then some to be as difficult as he can be. If he is flamboyant along the way then more power to him. Not that the good mayor is a saint. But, he can get the job done for New Orleans when he sets his mind to it.
New Orleans Nagin: Chocolate Talk Hides True Colors
Mayor C. Ray Nagin is now getting more air time then President Bush—even if Nagin is not actually present in front of the television cameras or president.
On Tuesday’s CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, the host appeared angry that he could not get an interview with the New Orleans mayor. Cooper said the city and CNN had a firm date but a few minutes prior to the interview, Nagin cancelled.
CNN then discovered Nagin was meeting with a group of individuals at a steakhouse in downtown New Orleans and stated on the air that the meeting was with his Bring New Orleans Back Commission.
Then, Cooper interviewed a roundtable of observers including Jesse Jackson who would never give up an opportunity to appear on CNN. The topic of discussion was Ray Nagin.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
What planet are they living on, indeed !
Tales of the Wiretap! Major Media Moments: Echelon Listens In
... “No problem,” Ving replies. “I’ll just hack into Echelon.” And with a mere two keystrokes, we’re onto the next action sequence.
(A brief sociological aside: Try as I might, I can’t pinpoint the exact date when the “muscle-bound black guy” replaced the “dissipated white nerd” as Hollywood’s preferred casting choice for the obligatory computer geek. But I’m sure somebody is looking into it right now for their master’s degree in cinema studies.)
Anyway, with all this in mind, I decided to put in a call to Ving. Herewith, the results:
N.S.A. Echelon Intercept 22-31-34523: Anderson Cooper, anchorman; Jon Klein, president, CNN/US.
KLEIN: You’ve got to work the empathy angle, Anderson. Win their trust. Make it personal. That’s the only way we’re going to win.
COOPER: I like the shots they’re using of me in the billboards, and the adverting. Cool but caring. Still …. I’m worried it’s a little bit of overkill. And to be honest, I feel sort of bad about—what’s his name. Aaron. Aaron Brown. Vaporized.
KLEIN: Forget him. He was a foot soldier. He had to be sacrificed. This is war.
... “No problem,” Ving replies. “I’ll just hack into Echelon.” And with a mere two keystrokes, we’re onto the next action sequence.
(A brief sociological aside: Try as I might, I can’t pinpoint the exact date when the “muscle-bound black guy” replaced the “dissipated white nerd” as Hollywood’s preferred casting choice for the obligatory computer geek. But I’m sure somebody is looking into it right now for their master’s degree in cinema studies.)
Anyway, with all this in mind, I decided to put in a call to Ving. Herewith, the results:
N.S.A. Echelon Intercept 22-31-34523: Anderson Cooper, anchorman; Jon Klein, president, CNN/US.
KLEIN: You’ve got to work the empathy angle, Anderson. Win their trust. Make it personal. That’s the only way we’re going to win.
COOPER: I like the shots they’re using of me in the billboards, and the adverting. Cool but caring. Still …. I’m worried it’s a little bit of overkill. And to be honest, I feel sort of bad about—what’s his name. Aaron. Aaron Brown. Vaporized.
KLEIN: Forget him. He was a foot soldier. He had to be sacrificed. This is war.
Aaron Brown's anchoring is mentioned here as the beginning to a free fall of response to the Katrina disaster.
The 8th
Don't believe your eyes and ears
" ... His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home, and every day she called him and said, ‘Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said, ‘Yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you Friday -- and she drowned Friday night.' " -- The Ledger Independent, Sept. 5, 2005...
... In essence — and this cuts to the heart of the matter — Bush loyalists are asking us not to believe what our eyes have seen.
Said CNN's Aaron Brown: "What planet have these people been living on?"
Terry Moran of ABC apparently agreed. On Tuesday he cited the federal government's "catastrophic failure to respond."
Clarence Page in this newspaper on Wednesday called the government response "sluggish." Homeland Security, he wrote, "flunked its first big test."
Tom Foreman grew up in New Orleans. He knows the Big Easy. On CNN, two days after Katrina hit, he used huge Google map images to show highways open in the western part of the city. He was, he said, "baffled" why supply trucks weren't using those roads.
We learn more each day.
Reported Newsweek: There was "hesitancy, bureaucratic rivalries, failures of leadership from city hall to the White House." And this: "A strange paralysis set in. For days Bush's top advisors argued over legal niceties about who was in charge."
The public response, according to Time, seemed "inept." The news magazine made a telling point. Singer Harry Connick Jr. was able to get to the New Orleans Convention Center and offer help, but not the National Guard."
(Note: The reason the Guard did not make it was because it was not ordered by superiors to do so. The Guard itself, the Army, and the Coast Guard have performed brilliantly. To say that leadership was to blame would be a colossal understatement.)
In Florida, the day Katrina hit, 300 ambulances were lined up and ready to go. Didn't happen. FEMA did not give the go ahead.
In Houston, the same day, tractor-trailers were ready, waiting, and loaded with water. All the drivers needed was the word. It never came.
Finally, it took the president of the United States a full four days before he addressed the nation about the Gulf Coast tragedy.
And it was he — not me, not reporters, not commentators — who said we "came up short," who said the response was "unacceptable."
That, if nothing else, was at least one small step for the truth.
Don't believe your eyes and ears
" ... His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home, and every day she called him and said, ‘Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' And he said, ‘Yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you Friday -- and she drowned Friday night.' " -- The Ledger Independent, Sept. 5, 2005...
... In essence — and this cuts to the heart of the matter — Bush loyalists are asking us not to believe what our eyes have seen.
Said CNN's Aaron Brown: "What planet have these people been living on?"
Terry Moran of ABC apparently agreed. On Tuesday he cited the federal government's "catastrophic failure to respond."
Clarence Page in this newspaper on Wednesday called the government response "sluggish." Homeland Security, he wrote, "flunked its first big test."
Tom Foreman grew up in New Orleans. He knows the Big Easy. On CNN, two days after Katrina hit, he used huge Google map images to show highways open in the western part of the city. He was, he said, "baffled" why supply trucks weren't using those roads.
We learn more each day.
Reported Newsweek: There was "hesitancy, bureaucratic rivalries, failures of leadership from city hall to the White House." And this: "A strange paralysis set in. For days Bush's top advisors argued over legal niceties about who was in charge."
The public response, according to Time, seemed "inept." The news magazine made a telling point. Singer Harry Connick Jr. was able to get to the New Orleans Convention Center and offer help, but not the National Guard."
(Note: The reason the Guard did not make it was because it was not ordered by superiors to do so. The Guard itself, the Army, and the Coast Guard have performed brilliantly. To say that leadership was to blame would be a colossal understatement.)
In Florida, the day Katrina hit, 300 ambulances were lined up and ready to go. Didn't happen. FEMA did not give the go ahead.
In Houston, the same day, tractor-trailers were ready, waiting, and loaded with water. All the drivers needed was the word. It never came.
Finally, it took the president of the United States a full four days before he addressed the nation about the Gulf Coast tragedy.
And it was he — not me, not reporters, not commentators — who said we "came up short," who said the response was "unacceptable."
That, if nothing else, was at least one small step for the truth.
Give 'em a taste of their own medicine. There is something grossly "W"rong when I feel compelled to call the New York Times on the carpet over Race.
Ray Nagin.
Shawn Kalebs.
"A Chocolate New Orleans"
Ray is not going to talk to you Anderson. You yell at people. The 'promise' he made was more than likely with Aaron. Aaron was the one that allowed Mayor Nagin to 'vent' on National Television after Katrina made landfall. As a matter of fact I remember Aaron saying to the Mayor, "Is there anything you want to say I haven't asked you?" It was Aaron that brought out the boisterous Mayor. Maybe you should ask Aaron to do the next interview with the good mayor. Maybe they can do it at the New Orleans planned Godiva Factory.
Why settle for "M & M's" after all?
What do you think? I think it's a heck of an idea.
Mayor Nagin is reacting to the fact the strife of New Orleans including the Federal Government to bulldoze half the city without intentions to resurrect it. Nagin didn't go far enough. He has no intentions of 'segregating' New Orleans. He's exhausted as the rest of the country is of Bush's Bigotry.
For all the devastation that city has experienced. All the neglect. All the victimization. I don't blame Ray for any emotion at this point. He can do no "W"rong.
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Hold on there lady. Bush can say 'God is on his side' but Mayor Nagin can't. I guess God is a white man ! And a Repuglican as well.
Knock if off. REBUILD NEW ORLEANS !!!!!!!!!!!
Shawn Kalebs.
"A Chocolate New Orleans"
Ray is not going to talk to you Anderson. You yell at people. The 'promise' he made was more than likely with Aaron. Aaron was the one that allowed Mayor Nagin to 'vent' on National Television after Katrina made landfall. As a matter of fact I remember Aaron saying to the Mayor, "Is there anything you want to say I haven't asked you?" It was Aaron that brought out the boisterous Mayor. Maybe you should ask Aaron to do the next interview with the good mayor. Maybe they can do it at the New Orleans planned Godiva Factory.
Why settle for "M & M's" after all?
What do you think? I think it's a heck of an idea.
Mayor Nagin is reacting to the fact the strife of New Orleans including the Federal Government to bulldoze half the city without intentions to resurrect it. Nagin didn't go far enough. He has no intentions of 'segregating' New Orleans. He's exhausted as the rest of the country is of Bush's Bigotry.
For all the devastation that city has experienced. All the neglect. All the victimization. I don't blame Ray for any emotion at this point. He can do no "W"rong.
1011
Hold on there lady. Bush can say 'God is on his side' but Mayor Nagin can't. I guess God is a white man ! And a Repuglican as well.
Knock if off. REBUILD NEW ORLEANS !!!!!!!!!!!
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The Demographics of New Orleans. Hey. I want to know how many dead from Katrina are Black? How many poor? How many disabled?
The Hispanics currently in New Orleans are illegal immigrants working for Halliburton. Perhaps Cheney has some insight to the employment possiblities of returning New Orleans residents.
1021
The News Secretary
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Commercials AGAIN !
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Candy Crowley. You should agree Hillary for once, Candy. You don't actually agree with the raping of the USA treasury do you? You don't actually agree with the gross negligence of the Gulf Coast causing record deaths of modern times by storm? You don't actually agree with the national debt? There isn't a political motive at the basis of this dissention? Bush is a bigot. That isn't obvious. Look what he did to civil rights. The Office of Civil Rights. The Univeristy of Michigan. You all haven't forgotten so quickly about the previous five years except where it serves you in recalling 'terror events' like September 11th.
GET OVER IT !
Bush and anyone who it applies to DESERVES the 'tongue lashing.'
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Jessie states Hillary was trying to evoke emotions. Good ! Passivity is the 'honed' oppression of this White House.
Spying on citizens? How many were Black? How many were Black organizations?
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I love this. There are many issues in the Black Community. HOW ABOUT THE ISSUES IN THE 'CAUCASIAN COMMUNITY !' They have more 'segregation' and 'skin color' preference than any other race in the country.
Go Hillary !!!!!!!!!!!!
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How many of these callers are 'set up?'
Nagin is a raving lunatic. Really? I haven't witnessed that sideof him yet. I have witnessed a Black Man ignored and abused. Not just now but in past years. One of the first things Mayor Nagin stated to Aaron when he was given 'Carte Blanc' to say it; was that the cities wetlands were never returned to protect New Orleans. He stated for every mile of wetlands the storm surge to the city was cut by one foot. Imagine the 'force' buffered by those wetlands. Mayor Nagin is no fool or a lunatic.
They are all trying to 'put one over on you Mayor.' Let it rip ! DO NOT SACRIFICE NEW ORLEANS. DO NOT !!!
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I doubt there is much more to stick around for. I see nothing wrong with rubbing people's noses in content that is distasteful IF they were first to hand it out.
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