Subj : Re: Happy Birthday John To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 18:04:05 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John Iwaniszek wrote: > "Finnigann" wrote in > news:431C550B.876.farscape@bnb.synchro.net: > >> To: Nick >> -=> Nick wrote to alt.tv.farscape <=- >> >> Ni> From Newsgroup: >> alt.tv.farscape >> >> Ni> John Iwaniszek wrote: >> > Nick wrote: >> > >> >> This link is for you: http://bushlobster.ytmnd.com/ >> >> >> > >> > I wonder if that little baby was dying from dehydration around >> > that time. >> >> Ni> The baby looks pretty good to me. If she was in danger somebody >> ought Ni> to punch the reporter. BTW, I was really expecting to see >> some Ni> reporter get his head bashed in as they were standing around >> the Ni> superdome asking people coming up out of the water stupid >> questions Ni> like, "How do you feel about this?" They could have at >> least handed Ni> someone a bottle of water before asking questions. >> >> Wouldn't that amount to paying for a story? Turn it around. Had that >> happen, some people would have been all over that saying that the >> reporter got the story they wanted by provding [water]. >> >> When should a reporter lay down his microphone and start helping? Now >> thats a tough question. >> >> ... You eat one person, and suddenly you're branded for life. >> --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 >> > > I think that the reporters WERE helping. How else would we have known > what was going on and how else would Michael "Skeletor" Chertoff have > known that there were still people trapped in the city. The more > exposure this gets the better for the people affected and for the future > of US emergency management. Yes. On a side note, I remember some show on PBS from a number of years ago in which they would gather together a bunch of people in some field or other along with a bunch of legal experts[1] and pose some moral/ethical/legal dilemma for them to hash out. One episode was about objectivity in journalism. Among the various things thrown out was the following scenario: journalist is tagging along with Viet Cong in the jungles of S.E. Asia. The VC unit comes upon an unsuspecting American unit. What is the journalist's reponsibility at that point? Does he remain an objective observer while the Americans get ambushed or does he try to call out a warning? The journalists present seemed pretty torn. The reaction of the military folks (ranging from a former Lieutenant who commanded a platoon and lost his arm in Vietnam to William Westmoreland[2], who was there) was uniform disgust at the journalists. This isn't particularly relevant to anything. I just thought it was interesting at the time and the above discussion reminded me of it. ATF: The receptacle for my stream of consciousness. -- Jim [1] The panels were very high profile people: I remember off the top of my head Kissinger, Scalia, Ford (the president), etc. [2] Who had always struck me as a horse's ass. .