So the other night I came across this and let it run in the background (7 hours of initial CNN reporting on the disaster): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6OTlK8LVu8
I researched this and found that Miles O'Brien is a very highly regarded science reporter, but frankly my thoughts as I watched some of this was "man, this guy is barely keeping it together."
Some stuff that rubbed me wrong:
- was incredibly rude to some of the callers. At one point he gets someone from some company in east Texas on the line, THAT person puts some random person on the phone to talk about what he saw and Miles kind of berated the original caller for "some random guy talking in my ear".
- Constantly borderline yelling at the control room asking for callers and for control room to queue up another caller (felt like he needed them to fill dead air).
- Constantly promoting "CNN" when talking to callers. "Well, were you watching CNN earlier this morning?" "Can you turn on 'CNN'?" and so on.
Overall I kept thinking, "This is so far from Cronkite it's embarrassing".
I know it's easy for me to criticize, never having had to anchor an unfolding situation on live TV with people screaming into an ear-piece and so on, but I kept thinking "this guy seems like he's barely keeping it together and just wants a 'real' anchor to get there. Seems like he's some random morning show dude in over his head." Was very surprised to learn that he pretty much WAS the guy, as main science reporter, who shoulda been running it.
What are your thoughts? Am I being too harsh here?
Submitted November 06, 2018 at 01:13PM by Spare0844 https://ift.tt/2yVD4KK
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