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WCBS brands police shooting “50 Shots” then sanity prevails
For some reason, WCBS has decided this past weekend’s police shooting in Queens needed a catchy name and logo on Monday. After calling the story “Deadly Police Shooting” for most of the weekend, they switched to the catchy “50 Shots” name (stolen from the Post's Sunday headline) complete with a logo. Not even bottom feeder Fox 5 stooped that low. By Tuesday evening, they changed to the much less sensationalistic “Police Shooting”. Score one for good sense.
Spinning against NBC
A day after NBC decided to start calling the Iraq Civil War a civil war, President Bush gave what is in effect a reply during an event in Latvia on Tuesday. “There's a lot of sectarian violence taking place, fomented in my opinion because of these attacks by al Qaeda, causing people to seek reprisal. And we will work with the Maliki government to defeat these elements,” Mr. Bush stated.
Soon to be house speaker Nancy Pelosi noted, “The 9/11 commission dismissed that notion a long time ago and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again.”
The president’s comments and reaction to them prompted NBC to refute Mr. Bush’s claims. A report by Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski that aired on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday evening using military intelligence figures stating that al Qaeda only makes up 2% to 3% of opposing forces in Iraq.
The seed of change has been planted, and only time will tell if this will grow into a losing Walter Cronkite moment.
Six days a week
WCBS has been having its weeknight 11PM Jim Rosenfield, Dana Tyler, and John Bolaris front the late news for the past few Sunday evenings. Apparently this is another gimmick that General Manager Tom Dunn brought from Philadelphia. As we mentioned a few weeks back, Dunn is making many of the changes he made at Philladelphia’s KYW here at WCBS.
The Old Bolaris Almanac
On Monday at 11 p.m. and Tuesday at 6 p.m. channel 2's John Bolaris give his winter weather outlook, which is purely a sweeps stunt. Among his predictions are a moderate El Niño, a trace to three inches of snow for December, and a season snow total of 15 to 27 inches. He should really leave long range weather prediction to The Old Farmer's Almanac who has been doing it since 1792.
Let’s do the time warp?
It may have seemed like a time warp Monday when Diana Williams co-anchored with Bill Ritter at 11 on channel 7. Williams co-anchored the newscast with Ritter from 1999 until 2003 when Liz Cho took over.
Just a little Mickey Mouse (and Minnie, too)
Amazingly, WABC’s Lincoln Center Holiday Tree Lighting featured acts from the various venues at the arts complex instead of from Disney properties. The Monday evening ceremonies, which took up the last 20 minutes or so of the 5 p.m. newscast, wound up thankfully having only four obvious Disney employees on camera– hosts Sam Champion and Sade Baderinwa along with the two people in the Mickey and Minnie suits.
WNBC Scoop
WNBC's Tim Minton managed to get exclusive interviews with Queens District Attorney Richard Brown and Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson on Tuesday night. Brown’s office is handling Saturday’s police shooting and Johnson handled the Diallo incident in 1999. Minton’s interview with Brown was the first granted since the incident on Saturday.
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What does the 9/11 commission have to do with whether Al-Qaeda is in Iraq now? I think Ms. Pelosi misunderstood the statement.
Yesterday it was "seed change." Today it's "loosing Walter Cronkite."
Gothamist, I love you. But for the love of god, please hire a competent editor.
yep, bush has completely lost touch with reality and continues to lie about al qaeda's presence in iraq. he should keep it up. he's guaranteeing a dem as president in '08.
Under the heading, 'Why Bother?' I offer the following corrections:
It would not be a loosing moment, it would be a losing moment;
and the man spells his name Miklaszewski ... a simple Google search would've given you that one.
A dictionary would've given you the other.
I simply CANNOT get over the fact that people in this country can continue to grant credibility to anything G.W. Bush says.
First off, the man is a moron who struggles to put together a coherent sentence in plain English. And regularly FAILS. Not the brightest bulb in the set, to say the least.
Second: He has no problems in sending off our young to get killed & maimed in a bullshit invasion in order to settle old scores with his personal enemies (Saddam) yet he himself avoided going to war in Vietnam nor does he send his own two daughters to Iraq.
"Do what I say not what I do" is his motto, apparently.
Third: He's a f*cking blockhead who just keeps spewing the same ol' bullshit over and over and is incapable of adapting to changes or circumstances when obviously proven wrong.
Fourth: He's a corrupt bastard who has let his Halliburton buddies dictate US foreign policy, while granting them exclusive contracts without formal bidding.
Fifth: He inherited a financial surplus from the previous administration and has not only squandered it already, he's increased our national debt to record-level highs while driving our economy into the ground.
Sixth: He has irreparably damaged our reputation as a freedom loving country and made us out to look like the f*cking 4th Reich, what with the tortures, clandestine prisons and illegal spying on citizens.
Seven: If numbers 1 thru 6 were'nt enough for you then you're probably a Texan cracker just like ol' GW.
YOU TERRORIST !
Ben, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Al-Qaeda is in Iraq, period. Not to the degree that Bush emphasizes it, but they are there.
Al Qaeda is not the New York Yankees, with a formal roster and payroll. When targets of opportunity are present in the region, Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hezbollah, Iranian Pasdaran and everyone else with an agenda or a grudge to bear thanks to the lack of order are now active in Iraq. Enjoy!
There is no "Walter Cronkite moment" to be had, thank goodness. The network news programs do not have the influence they did in the 60s. So when newsreaders like Cronkite or Williams misrepresent events like the Tet offensive, viewers have alternative sources of information and won't necessarily be led astray by some blow-dried lightweight. I'm sure that disappoints Toby very much.
Congrats to Ben for contributing the most generic post of the day. The same old list of lies and exaggerations that you will find on any left-wing blog. And I assume Ben also hates Bill Clinton for sending troops into harms way after lying to evade service (unlike GWB who did serve).
more reasons to turn off your tv and get your news from an rss reader and yr inbox.
Ben Dover, take it easy on Texan cracker comment. Not all Texans agree with Bush policy. Secondly, Bush wraps himself in a Texas cloak but the fact of the matter is he and his family are from the northeast, I believe Connecticut to be exact. Ask any Texas democrat and they'll tell you he's a carpetbagger. By the way, yes there are democrats and liberals residing in the state of Texas. Visit Austin sometime. It wasn't that long ago Ann Richards ran the state and the dems came close to upsetting the sitting Rep incumbent last month. If Bush keeps this rhetoric up hopefully the fine people of Texas we'll sweep the conservative political base out of office in the next terms.
Brooklyn Texan
My apologies to ALL TEXANS (I'm sounding like a bizarro Kramer here) for the comments I made against 'em. I got carried away by my hatred of this moronic f*kk we call our Fuhrer.
You're absolutely right, BrooklynTex, the 'man' (let's be generous here) is indeed from Conn..
He was excreted to Texas when he was 2 years old.
Which, in many ways, he still is.
"50 Shots" wasn't ripped off from the Daily News; it was adapted from Springsteen's "41 Shots," about the Dialou debacle. Learn yer NYC history AND yer rock 'n' roll.
""50 Shots" wasn't ripped off from the Daily News; it was adapted from Springsteen's "41 Shots," about the Dialou debacle. Learn yer NYC history AND yer rock 'n' roll."
Gee, I thought it was lifted from "99 Luftbaloons".
Gimme a break.
Ben, get a life, and a brain of your own.
Ben Dover, if idiots like you keep whining about things that happened in 2003 you all but guarantee a GOP victory in 2008. Yeah, we get it. Bush is an idiot. Iraq was a mistake. The Democrats were handed a gift in 2006 but they'll surely blow it if they don't have any sort of strategy in 2008, just like they had no strategy this year. Victory by default is no victory.
Hey Ben, I'd like to hear your brilliant explanations about the economy. How exactly is it "in the ground"? How is it any different from what would have evolved since 2000 if Al Gore were President? Exactly how would Gore have done things differently?
And except for the surplus in 2000 the only surplus Bush inherited was a projected one that conveniently was forecast only until 2010, right when the first Baby Boomers start collecting Social Security. FYI, Clinton did nothing to shore up Medicare and Social Security.
Please, everyone. Stop asking Ben questions. He's clearly incapable of doing more than cutting and pasting some blather from Kos.
"unlike GWB who did serve"
nola, are you fkkng serious?
"Hey Ben, I'd like to hear your brilliant explanations about the economy. How exactly is it "in the ground"? How is it any different from what would have evolved since 2000 if Al Gore were President? Exactly how would Gore have done things differently?"
Lol. Everytime someone criticizes our Moron-in-Chief, his supporters counter by asking stupid questions like, "Exactly how would Gore have done things differently?".
Well I don't know that nor do you nor does anyone. It's kinda like asking, "Exactly how would Hindenburg have done things different if he were still in office instead of Adolf Hitler?".
Some things that probably WOULD be have been different however:
1) We would have gone after Osama Bin Laden (remember good ol' Osama anyone?) instead of wasting time, effort, money and the lives of our soldiers in settling old scores with Bush's personal enemies, namely Saddam.
2) There would be THOUSANDS of innocent Iraqi men, woman & children still alive instead of murdered during an illegal armed invasion.
3) Over 2000 American soldiers would still be alive and many thousand more would still have both legs, both eyes, both arms and a functional penis.
4) The rest of the world would NOT view us as Nazi conquerors, torturers and perverts.
5) People would cease to giggle everytime the president of the US gave a speech. Most US presidents USED to speak good English.
6) There wouldn't be people reading your e-mail or monitering your phone calls.
Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia
Like I said yesterday. Thanks, neo-conservative dreamers!
So it's "insane" and "sensationalistic" to point out that the NYPD fired 50 shots at a group of unarmed black men *might* be newsworthy. But the pig who fired those shots, who actually *stopped and reloaded* -- he's "sane"?
Seriously, maybe the white gentrifying hipster-settlers over at Gothamist think it's rational to shoot black men on sight -- the rest of us here in NY don't think summary executions quite pass the smell test for "justice".