MSM Moment of the DAY: Today Show Reporter Canoes in ANKLE DEEP Water

[jackstraw45]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_en_tv/tv_today_shallow_water



'Today' Reporter Paddles in Shallow Water

NEW YORK - If Michelle Kosinski's canoe had sprung a leak on NBC's "Today" show Friday, she didn't have much to worry about.

In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera — making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep.

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Later, an NBC News spokeswoman explained that Kosinski had been riding in deeper water near an overflowing river down the street, but there were concerns that the current was too strong for her.

"It's not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn't," spokeswoman Lauren Kapp said.


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

This is the PERFECT illustration of the "we make news" Corporate Media we have today in this country.

[Wickerman]

1. It was hilarious

even Matt and Katie were giving her a hard time - and there was no way in hell she had any idea of how to paddle the canoe.

[jackstraw45]

3. Any screenshots around? edit - found one...nt

nt

[liveoaktx]

18. VIDEO- from Countdown

Up a Creek

[MichiganVote]

NBC typifies the 'Geraldo Rivera' news story all the time.

[One_of_8]

2. How humiliating!

:rofl:

[Drifter]

4. Just like the hurricane footage ...

where the report is all bundled in rain gear, and then some guy walks by with a muscle shirt on like nothing is going on.

Cheers
Drifter

[Sequoia]

9. I remember that one! Xtremly Funny that!

This one is even funnier. What a dolt.

[Wilms]

5. Now hold on a sec...

It's not easy to canoe in ankle deep water.

For one, the paddle will only go ankle deep into the water.

[jackstraw45]

6. I didn't see it, but unless the camera SHOWED the paddle in the water...

She was probably pretending to paddle.

Anyone?

[Catherine Vincent]

7. heh heh, that's funny!

[HockeyMom]

8. Should have bought an ARCH instead of a new car

Long Island here. I am talking major roadways. Completely flooded out. Trucks were PUMPING them on my way home from work. Accidents? Forget it. From Tuesday through yesterday, we got from 9 to 14 inches of rain. Don't know what today's rainfall was, but was torrential all day. I am not talking about RIVERS overflowing here, just the RAIN. Eventually, there is nowhere for it go.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Not so funny. Those guys could have swamped that canoe with their wake.

Did you ever think of that?

8>)

[spuddonna]

11. BWAHAHA!! Good one! :) n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. How very risque of her.

Her daring astounds me.

:eyes::eyes:

[incapsulated]

13. Busted!

Bwhahaha! :rofl:

[cwydro]

14. LOL

during Rita down here in the Keys, CNN had a reporter on Duval Street...who literally kicked his foot into a widdy biddy puddle and said "look! look! and this will get much worse!" We were in hysterics because a heavy rain will cause flooding down here ANYTIME and that puddle was probably nothing...maybe a drunk pissing in the street. They will do ANYTHING to manufacture news.

[madrchsod]

15. she had on white shoes

[jackstraw45]

16. Good thing she wasn't embedded in Iraq

:)

[jazzjunkysue]

17. Where was her life vest??????

Unsafe boating practices, I tell you.
I'm just shocked!