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 RW> Recall during Katrina, the day the water first came up
 RW> around University hospital and we became truly marooned on
 RW> hospital island.  A local ham was running around in one of
 RW> the tv remote trucks, probably with a tv "journalist"
 RW> aboard.  HE heard my lady calling somebody and listened to
 RW> the conversation, then realized he had one of the major
 RW> hospitals on the frequency.

 RW> talking head dude was badgering him to ask Kathleen all
 RW> sorts of questions.  sHE told him after about the third
 RW> question that she could not answer any questions, she was
 RW> not authorized too, she was there to provide emergency
 RW> communications.

 And what gets me is how often the quote someone with "name
 withheld because he is not authorized to speak on the subject."
 If he's not authorized to speak then shut up.

 RW> A real journalist imho would have asked her to get somebody
 RW> to the radio who *could* speak for the institution, but
 ...
 RW> sTill if he could get an easy scoop, as in "university
 RW> hospital is still operational" he would have been glad to
 RW> get it.

 And he actually could have, had he just interpreted what he was
 hearing rationally.

 RW> A real reporter would have understood there was an actual
 RW> story there, and would have tried to ferret it out.

 Yup.

DD>> Try getting Katie Couric out from behind her "anchor" desk. But,

 RW> wOUld agree there, but it ain't gonna happen.  FIrst, it's
 RW> finding real reporters in television news.  sEcond, if you

 One big reason I don't watch TV news unless there is some
 catastrophe in progress.

 ...

 RW> delve into the issues a bit you're going to make JOe
 RW> average viewer uncomfortable, and he wants to see the
 RW> latest starlet show him a bit of leg

 I have 'higher' standards.


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