The Scarlet Letter Posted on October 8, 2024 at 01:14:54 AM by Nate Hawthorne
What's consistent abvout this room's contributors is that most in here are not advocates of broadcasting or broadcasters.
They all remind me of one in particular, whether talking about one TV station or another, or one radio station or another, or rumors about individual staffers indescretions. Just what asshole has written about an achor who HAD a drinking problem, a radio talk show guy who did, and two weathermen whose LGBT activities of the past were no one's business?
Same themes come up in the accusations, same belittling, its been going on for years. Maybe look to those who have been in this room for years...maybe they're mostly coming from the same abuser or a couple of them. Or its just the nature of the mean spirited emotional wrecks attracted to the performing arts! Cops do the same thing when as control freaks they hassle the powerless and ignorant, bully them into a fight and then yell 'resisting arrest' after pissing them off right before beating the shit out of them. We see it on Cop Reels all the time. Clearly cops are more interested in obedience than properly handling people with mental anger management issues. (Ever heard of anyone getting off for self defense by taking out a bully cop during a minor traffic stop? No you won't either. The justice system generally protects its own.)
Back to 60 Minutes. I was listenng to the Chiefs game on The Wolf, and watching 60 Minutes intv with Kamala and Tim. Trump backed out, wisely. His reason is what mine would have been and I've watched these investigative magazine shows on the 3 networks for many years. I even followed in the tracks of 2 of the networks doing two stories about which I was very familiar.
The joke I always said to CEO's and corporate PR people is this, "IF you get a call from 60 MInutes, immediately go on vacation and don't talk to them until the story blows over. Trumps doing that now by backing out.
As I've watched CBS' broadcast tonight, its the same strategy they always practice. They Play Gotcha, they phrase questions designed to force people to publicly admit their mistakes as defined in the question, their bad or embarrassing events, but never once will they discuss accomplishments. And they never give their victims the airtime to explain their actions.
They apparently think the audience wants to hear them do "Gotcha questions" often about unavoidable accidents, acts of God, and exceptions to what those people or company have done well. Sometimes, the explanation of a plane crash or pilot error should be to tell how many planes a day land on time and safely but sometimes just "Shit happens!"
It's a natural inclination of news people to just focus on mistakes, rare disasters, and personal failures. Its happened in here to anchors and weather people, talk show hosts and even other people in here. Like tonight, Focusing on Walz for stupidly saying he was In China during the 1980s ONE TIME, saying something that wasn't accurate when in fact his opposition lies constantly...so 60 minutes asked Walz on camera if he could be trusted for fudging the facts on a speech 40 years ago. That's chickenshit reporting and both 60 Minutes and NBC White Paper have that reputation. Like asking an airplane manufacturer about a plane that's been problematic, when all the CEO can answer is that "Planes are light enough to fly, not to crash." If we made them utterly safe, they'd never get off the ground." Course they can't say that but they buy liability insurance to generously reimburse the fatal victims' families. (So no parachutes for every passenger, no inflight emergency exit doors, and no landing gear too big to retract.
In here, anonymous commenters bring up shit about other named people for long- ago, and that petty shit. People's right to know,they say!
It's the very reason that AA pledges anonymity for their people--because if somebody get wind they had a drinking or drug problem, their jealous critics will never stop blabbing about it for the rest of their lives, deliberately trying to prove that everyone is more of a sinner as the gossipping accusers.
This is nothing new. Jesus talked about Jews wanting to stone Mary Magdalene who allegedly got caught sleeping for money, and Jesus said leave her alone, "let he who has not sinned, cast the first stone."
Thats morality 101. As Walz said a month ago about draconian state abortion laws and Attorneys General keeping records on pregnant women. Walz said, "Mind your own damn business."
Yes I was in that business that local broadcasters were, about gossiping and telling public record stories for a living, often showing their police mugshots long before their trials. IT did get to the point I didn't want to do that anymore and I stopped being a reporter.
Once My boss told me to hang the local utility company over the Wolf Creek Nuclear power plant being built with serious cost overruns, or look for another job. Luckily HE got fired because of his own issues, not me.
If you follow politics like I do, you know that many people think when it comes to WINNING RACES, ends justify means. That's certainly how Trump operates and he'll get 45 percent of the popular vote for people who look the other way. This all started with Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Were you around then? Replies: