It’s Friday.
Been a bitch of a week, eh?
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Heard a reporter on KVIL. She was interviewing a New Orleans survivor, a guy talking about 12 feet of water in his building, and how he and 11 other adults and nine kids were trapped for a while. A truck driving school was nearby, and somehow he managed to hot-wire a truck and get them out.
And the reporter started laughing.
She laughed in his face. She said something about how strange that sounds to those of us just sitting on our couches, watching it on TV.
I changed it, couldn’t bear to listen to anymore of this woman’s dipshit cruelty, harmful naivete.
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I went to email them a complaint, and as it turns out, they’re a Viacom property. The email that popped up didn’t have an email address in it, just a name; this person is in our email system. Whoa… not going to push my luck.
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Quick update: The program director at KVIL is Smokey Rivers (srivers@cbs.com) in case you'd like to express an opinion about what transpired on his radio station this morning.
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We're all dealing with this horrible situation in different ways, and some of those ways may seem inappropriate to others. But saying such a thing to a survivor on the air was just callous and thoughtless.
I imagine KVIL is already being slammed with complaints, and I think it's safe to say that reporter's TV journalism career is over.
Michael
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