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Staging The News?

By Rob on April 4, 2006 at 10:53 am
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I wonder about the fairness of media tactics like this. Is it really going to result in a fair representation of the treatment of Muslims?

If you head into an event with the objective of baiting obnoxious or crude behavior out of people why should anyone be surprised when that is what you get?

I guess it would depend on the tactics employed by NBC, but what I can imagine happening is that NBC will air some foolishness from maybe half a dozen drunken idiots (there are some in every crowd) and use that to paint the entire "NASCAR culture" as being bigoted. There are, on average, 125,000 people at a NASCAR race. Is it fair paint all those people as bigoted based on the bad behavior of a few? Will NBC air the show if the footage they get is of a bunch of race fans being courteous to the Muslims? Will NBC show any instances of race fans being courteous if they do air the show?

Call me crazy, but I wouldn't count on it. The objective of the show is to show discrimination. That's what they want, and if they bait hard enough I suspect they'll get it.

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Avatar for Seth Yantiss

I like this idea!   They could also do a show about Christians in Saudi Arabia, Whites Farmers in Zimbabwe, Eskimos in Cuba, Supermodels on a farm…

 

I guess they did the last one... 

Seth Yantiss on April 4, 2006 at 12:29 pm
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Why don’t they do something unscripted, say, like maybe Republicans being booed and hooted by democrats at a memorial for one of their departed members. Nah, does not fit into the news profile they want to project.

On second thought, do you think we could get the Republicans to boo democrats at a funeral? 

Silly Bastards. 

Eneils Bailey on April 4, 2006 at 01:13 pm
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Thats funny, not HaHa funny, strange funny. I know two people that work production for a NBC affiliate who were there for the entire week, just called them, they never heard about anything untoward happening there. One has been in the industry since 1974, the other since 1986. Not babes blinded by the glitz and glamour. And yes, they both admitted to knowing about staged news, they both laughed about anyone not knowing about it.

TwoHotel9 on April 4, 2006 at 04:05 pm
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They could send some police and military to a Democratic convention and film them being spit on.

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