Anger, empathy, skepticism cracking through journalistic objectivity

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-te.to.journalist04sep04,1,4807409.story?coll=bal-features-headlines

The axiom that journalists should be dispassionate interpreters of events, no matter how harrowing, has been severely tested in the deadly wake of Hurricane Katrina.

The magnitude of the destruction left by the storm and the desperate straits of thousands of its victims were challenge enough. Many reporters, clearly affected by what they were seeing, showed their empathy in their stories, and some were moved to tears.

But when it became apparent that the government's response to the disaster was, at the very least, inadequate to the task, the sorrow turned to anger.

"It's a disgrace, and don't think the world isn't watching," a fuming Jack Cafferty said Thursday on CNN, as the screen showed foul shelters packed with victims in New Orleans. "Where is the federal government? Where is food and water for these people?"

[shireen]

1. huh?

from the article:

Not satisfied with that, a reporter asked him why "the richest country in the world can't get help to the people who need it."

Bush's reply - "I'm satisfied with the response; I'm not satisfied with all the results" - left some of the media members perplexed, and they said so. They were equally baffled by Bush's assertion that, in spite of the tragedy that had befallen Biloxi residents, "their spirits are high."

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I am very concerned about the mental acuity of our president.

[madaboutharry]

2. He is the cue card president

He is unable to think independently and therefore has to rely on memorized phrases which he utters at times he believes to be approproaite. He is unable to think in context.

[Teaser]

3. I'm no longer concerned about it.

Because I've figured out he doesn't have any mental acuity.