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Exit16W
15 Oct 2005, 12:05 PM
Does anyone have a clip of the Today Show canoe mishap?
CHICO13
15 Oct 2005, 12:10 PM
Does anyone have a clip of the Today Show canoe mishap?
What happened?
SueB
15 Oct 2005, 12:13 PM
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/chotoday.wmv
The reporter was trying to add drama to her live report on the flooding in NJ by talking while paddling a canoe. While she was talking, a couple guys walk between her and the camera with the water barely coming up to their ankles.
chad
15 Oct 2005, 12:23 PM
That's awesome, especially since it came immediately after a bit about the Government staging something for tv.
Exit16W
15 Oct 2005, 12:23 PM
What happened?
The reporter was in a canoe reporting how bad the flooding was in NJ. As you see her struggling to paddle in what seemed to be deep water two guys walk by in showing the water is probably 6 inches deep. You hear the guy Matt Lauder say "holy men"
CHICO13
15 Oct 2005, 12:24 PM
The reporter was in a canoe reporting how bad the flooding was in NJ. As you see her struggling to paddle in what seemed to be deep water two guys walk by in showing the water is probably 6 inches deep. You hear the guy Matt Lauder say "holy men"
:D
jamison
15 Oct 2005, 01:00 PM
1. That was pretty funny. I watched th "WMP-East Coast Feed-with boat ", and the clip starts off with Katie Couric talking about the pentagon staging answers to a Bush news conference. It then cuts to a lady in a boat in 5.3 inches of water. Very nice.
Watching that clip is worth it alone to listen to her "well, it's a lot deeper over there..." after the two guys walk past.
2. Are we entirely surprised here? Wasn't NBC the same network that got sued for intentionally exploding GM trucks a couple of years ago? I like the West Wing and all, but I stopped getting "news" from any of these guys years ago. (And, I'm a liberal democrat, not some fox neo-con nutjob).
3. If anyone in broadcast journalism wonders why people under 35 don't watch the news, this would be it. Why does every story they cover have to be the worst tragedy ever? Does anyone think that news van has a canoe on top of it the other 364 days of the year? It rained a lot (7 straight days in the city), granted. But some producer went out to Sports Authority and bought a canoe just to have this idiot look like she was sitting in the middle of the Hudson River, and she clearly was not. Why was rain & flooding not enough? Did they really have to say "Hey, any reporter in knee deep water is good, but a reporter in a boat...much better!!".