"It's not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn't"
NBC News spokeswoman Lauren Kapp, explaining how it was that Today show reporter Michelle Kosinski was shown paddling a canoe in ankle deep water, while talking about the raging flood waters in Wayne, New Jersey.
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She did say that there was ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by jc | October 15, 2005 1:14 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
She did say that there was deeper water down the street at the intersection. Therefore it's fake, but accurate. That's the new standard, don't you know?
1. Posted by jc | October 15, 2005 1:14 AM |
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Posted on October 15, 2005 01:14
2. Posted by DanRather | October 15, 2005 1:29 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
So what? What's your point? I have an unimpeachable source that says that that was water and that was a boat. And besides the camera and digitization and pixel misregistration can lead to image distortion. I'll grant you that it might have been fake, but still accurate.
Dan
2. Posted by DanRather | October 15, 2005 1:29 AM |
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Posted on October 15, 2005 01:29
3. Posted by Yogurt | October 15, 2005 5:59 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The real question is, which is more shallow, the water or the reporter?
3. Posted by Yogurt | October 15, 2005 5:59 AM |
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Posted on October 15, 2005 05:59
4. Posted by Pasco Conservative | October 15, 2005 7:07 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Could she endure Splash Mountain? Probably not.
4. Posted by Pasco Conservative | October 15, 2005 7:07 AM |
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Posted on October 15, 2005 07:07
5. Posted by epador | October 15, 2005 1:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Awww, c'mon folks, ya don't expect her to ruin her heels or put on waders, do ya? Besides, it is the perfect metaphor for shallow reporting...
5. Posted by epador | October 15, 2005 1:30 PM |
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Posted on October 15, 2005 13:30
6. Posted by Teri | October 15, 2005 2:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
They're also assuming that Americans are so dumb that they don't know how to use a canoe. You could see her paddle hitting the pavement a few inches below the water every single time. Even if the guys hadn't walked by when they did she would have been busted.
6. Posted by Teri | October 15, 2005 2:09 PM |
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Posted on October 15, 2005 14:09
7. Posted by Parker | October 17, 2005 9:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It is NOT 'the perfect metaphor for shallow reporting'.
After all, she had a paddle...
7. Posted by Parker | October 17, 2005 9:34 AM |
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Posted on October 17, 2005 09:34
8. Posted by Paul | October 18, 2005 2:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Actually, if you watch the full video clip, I think it's really interesting what Katie Couric says at the very end. She laments: "Oh well, the best laid plans..." She is acknowleding that it was a scam intended to dupe the viewers and her lament is not that it was tried but that is didn't work! A very revealing clip indeed...
8. Posted by Paul | October 18, 2005 2:37 PM |
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Posted on October 18, 2005 14:37