Wednesday, February 21, 2007

War Reporters

My beef for the day spawned from the ABC co-anchor Bob Woodruff story. ABC News is going to run a story tonight on TV retelling this story about Bob Woodruff. 3...2....1.....YOU CAN'T FUCKING HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ABC!!! When a television station sends a reporter to a war, they are wanting the public's interest and wow factor for being in a "dangerous situation." Fine...I can deal with that. But when you try to pass off a sob story about one of your anchors and cameraman getting injured from an attack, I have no interest and ecspecially no sympathy. Why no sympathy?...because you already said it was dangerous by sending them there in the first place. I didn't tell you to send a civilian into a war zone....do you even know what a war zone is? Let that sink in next time before you go after a story. A reporter get's attacked covering a peace parade...he has my condolences...but not going after a report in a fucking war. In summation, they are trying to score points (aka money) by sending poor Bob into a war, and then reaping the benefits of when he gets injured in that war. Come on ABC...stop taking advantage of the public's weak hearts.

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