Yesterday we reported on the hilarious antics of Mike Seidel of The Weather Channel in his performance trying to stand up in wind while others strolled casually by in the background. That video has gone viral. Here’s another example of how media tries to make the storm look worse than it actually was.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper was reporting live on the scene on a flooded road. And for effect, he stands in a ditch at the side of the road, about 3 feet lower.
Fortunately, somebody else was there to capture the CNN #fakenews event.
Yes the flooding was bad, but there’s no reason for antics like this. It just makes CNN looks even more untrustworthy than it already is.
No wonder trust in the news media is dropping.
(Update: It’s been said in comments this is from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or Ike in 2008, rather than Florence in 2018. No matter what year it was taken, the point is the same – [Anderson] Cooper made the event look worse than it is by standing in the ditch [where] the water is deeper only due to the ditch. Headline updated to remove Florence reference.)
Meanwhile, some firefighters had some fun spoofing “live on the scene reports”:
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It’s not news, it’s CNN?
Is that true, or did you hear it on the BBC?
Phillip, do you remember the spoof TV comedy, ‘Drop the Dead Donkey’? Obviously not a spoof when based on truth. 🙂
Before it’s time, who would have believed Damien’s antics would be a blueprint.
Isnt MSM news based on Drop The Dead Donkey?
If The only thing you have is a hammer then aften a while everything around you becomes a nail. If a journalist only has one idea in his mind he eventually will have to protect himself by declaring that there is no truth in the World? And they end up doing things like this?
CNN = “Credible News Nonexistent
CNN = Crap News Nightly
Your an idiot for sharing false news. This isnt even footage from Flo. It is from IKE. And yes flooding is never uniform and despite that Im sure the people in the background were not happy to be under water despite that.
An example in missing the point.
Ok, so it isn’t Flo. Yayyy. Good for you. Doggy want a biscuit?
The point is that they made the flooding, already bad enough, look worse for showmanship rather than reporting accurately.
The point that is being missed is the segment he was doing was about how you can’t tell how deep the water is, and you can suddenly find yourself in deeper water because you didn’t know the ditch was there.
Not to worry, Trump will be there in the morning to take care of the flood the same way he negotiated the first ever Cat 6 down to a stiff breeze. By the time he is done, the severe flooding will be an overflowing toilet or two:
Get real — media people aren’t that smart. They did it to exaggerate.
So lying to make it look worse than it is, is ok, so long as it’s flooding somewhere?
“And yes flooding is never uniform..”
We can all agree with that. The flooding was much worse where Anderson Cooper was standing. /s
Anthony made an honest mistake in saying the Cooper photos were from Florence. (A mistake he’s corrected, by the way.)
Cooper (et al) … well, they didn’t make a mistake. They deliberately exaggerated the flooding. There was nothing honest about their reporting.
No, they did not exaggerate the flooding. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/anderson-cooper-vs-donald-trump-jr-cnntv/index.html
Of course, people like you and Trump, Jr. will never admit you are wrong.
Snopes has some more detail on the Anderson Cooper shot at https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anderson-cooper-hurricane/
And as Dan Severn commented below, Cooper was talking about the fact you can’t tell how deep such water is.
It’s too bad that Anthony got snookered on that picture, because yesterday’s Weather Channel video is the real deal and confirmed by Snopes. And the firefighters’ video is hilarious.
“Your an idiot”. It’s “you’re an idiot”.
Pot? Meet kettle.
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone wrote “Your an idiot!”
Maybe it’s the Onion.
CNN-Speak
Truth is not a leftist value.
It never was.
Control is a leftist value.
People are more easily controlled
when they are scared
… about climate change
(a fake boogeyman)
or something real.
like a weak economy.
Well, we don’t have
a weak economy, so let’s
go with the global warming
boogeyman!
Liberals liberate themselves from Truth as first order of business.
Certainly Not News!
BUSTED…
It appears as though he is kneeling in the ditch as well.
That’s the entertainment industry for you!
The vanity of TV (w)anchors never ceases to entertain. When out in the field or the slums they are often a bit too eager to try and prove that they are roughing it and getting their hands dirty. I suspect that for many of them this stems from a deep sense of insecurity because they are afraid that a senior executive might suddenly realize that they are paying a lot of money for somebody who’s main skill is just reading an autocue.
I was listening to some kids kibitz in line at the local Starbucks. It was much better than most of the stand-up comedy in the downtown clubs. Those kids had amazing control of their voices. They looked intelligent and the right age, so I asked them if they were students. They were in the Radio, TV Broadcast program at the local community college. The skills they had learned went way beyond just parroting off a prompter.
Yeah but doing only what your told means you a4e employing these great skills fraudulently.
Good analysis. Alternatively they may be just serious d…heads.
I think he was hoping a snake would crawl into his ass.
I’m ashamed to admit, well not really, that I did laugh when I saw him referred to as Anderson Poopchute recently. Well, he does talk out of it.
Reporting live from the gutter.
No big surprise.
Good line, I like it
In UK we show our contempt for news reporting by using the phrase ‘The Gutter Press’. This guy has taken it personally..
This is one of the reasons I cut the cord. Now I wake up every morning happy that I don’t send one penny to CNN, MSNBC, ESPN
The left lives by the lie in every way possible. Many times it is not what they say but what they don’t say. Like, by the way, I’m standing in a ditch.
This site published a still shot from a show, making it look like that. In the show he said 2 steps more he’d be in deeper, and showed 2 steps forward was not as deep. So much for the left and lies.
Karen, Why do you folk have to always defend the fakery by citing what you think is someone elses fakery. I guess you at least acknowledge it was a “show”. Here’s the thing. If gentle Anderson Cooper became an axe murderer, could you not express shock, or would you dig up a story of a right wing axe nurderer to make it okay. Trust me, exploiting other’s disasters to create an enhanced disaster 8f it is not okay, even if the guy is left of Mao or right of Ivan the Terrible. Okay?
Link?
Snopes website.
Snoopes is a leftist website which I have caught re-writing history while calling someone who quoted it correctly a liar.
Snopes main concern always seems to be defending the Clintons
Like so many others in society who really don’t contribute very much, when you get a chance to “enhance” what little trivial stuff you do (telling people it rains & wind blows during hurricanes being a good example), you fluff it up as much as you can.
How the cameramen are able to film this crap without falling down laughing is the mystery.
It turns out the Anderson Cooper scene was from 2008, in Texas, in flood waters from Hurricane Ike. Not audible in the still scenes shown above was Anderson Cooper saying in the video that the road was higher than the ground he was standing on. In the liveshot, Cooper mentioned the range of elevation of the ground there. Politifact says this in their rating of usage of the photo “to make Donald Trump look bad”, including specifically Donald Trump Jr.’s tweet. https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2018/sep/18/viral-image/hoax-uses-2008-anderson-cooper-photo-proof-fake-hu/
Anderson Cooper said in recent days that this was from 2008. The mention of Katrina in 2005 is as wrong as the mention of Florence.
I think the Firefighters might have a new career in television reporting!
If the video link worked, they might.
Anderson Cooper should have squatted down in the water so it came up to his neck and then he would have an even more dramatic lie to broadcast.
I saw an article today saying CNN’s ratings had dropped 43 percent. CNN is going to run itself out of business telling all those lies. It can’t happen too soon, as far as I’m concerned.
No one can survive that kind of ratings drop without dark Chinese money to prop them up.
Tom,
What could sink CNN would be losing its stranglehold on airport news. It’s also common in other countries, but I don’t know what share of revenues and profits, if any, comes from outside the US.
It also supplies “news” to many other “news” channels, such as radio, etc. It’s amazing how a single theme is widespread so quickly on the morning commute each day.
John.
CNN PAYS airports to carry them. They don’t profit from airports, it costs them. I suspect it is useful to them for ratings. Imagine how low they would be if they were not paying airports to carry only their channel?
You can download free apps to make a smartphone into a tv remote. CNN does not last long on the TVs at my health club.
CNN pays the airports to run their content. It’s called CNN Airport Network. CNN makes back the money they pay the airports in ad revenue.
We need to start defunding the leftists… Ad Blocker works for YouTube. Use it all you want with Ad Blocker, and YouTube is paying, not getting paid. I haven’t seen an ad on YouTube in years.
For CNN, it’ll take some other method to get them removed from airports, because everyone but the advertisers (and the flying public) benefit. Perhaps a mass campaign of contacting CNN advertisers, letting them know they’re being boycotted until they drop advertising at the fake-news outlet CNN, and letting them know that their advertising numbers are being falsely inflated by CNN’s essentially buying traffic.
The ‘tards are so vocal about disparaging Fox (Faux) News but if they had half a brain between them, they’d realize that CNN is more likely than Fox to be the main contributor to Trump being re-elected in 2020. Doubling down while losing, naaah, not such a great idea.
Ohhh..and I suppose Fox IS your reliable source!!??? 🤣🤣
Does Fox news have to lie in order to make it’s reporters relevant?
This is so typical of liberals. They know that they can’t defend the behavior of those on their team, so they make up attacks on everyone else in order to muddy the water.
If you were asking me David, the answer is no, and talk about missing the point!
He looks like he’s wearing chest waders. If he he went up to his neck in them he’d go under completely as they filled with water. From expereince, one shouldnot go much past the waistline wearing them with water, because if wading in them & one stumbles, that’s pretty much it unless one has back ofat least two people to lift one out!
Good point, Alan. I hadn’t thought about that angle. 🙂
And if he went completely under and never surfaced again, the problem would be….?
Hi Allen. 60yrs ago I used to shoot ducks and geese in the huge Nettly Marsh where the Red River (of the N) delta enters Lake Winnipeg. A north wind ciuld pile water up in the marsh about a metre. There were mishas of that kind. My pals and I wore running shoes for wading into the distributary chanels in the centre where we has the best shooting
It would be great if someday The Guardian were to report they received a tip from WaPo that CNN has exposed the BBC’s fake news about climate.
So “fake news” is just a construct of conservatives?
The Communist News Network would makenPravda proud.
Not even CNN has dared to stage a broadcast like the Russian network’s Skripal poisoning team one where the 2 ‘tourists’ admit to being in Salisbury on the day in question to see ‘the world famous 120m (+ I’m British and don’t know how tall it is!) spire’! Probably only one step to go to be at the same level of fakery…
Were the Skripals actually poisoned? I’m not saying they weren’t, but if they were, how would we know?
Should we expect HM Government and the ladies and gentlemen of the press to tell us the unvarnished truth about the incident? Do we consider Boris Johnson’s or Teresa May’s outrage to be genuine or fake? Or should we give the folks peddling the story the benefit of the doubt on the basis that they are representing a consensus of authoritative opinion?
My goodness, you have some serious issues!
You bet I do! And I’ve raised some of them above. Perceptive of you to have noticed.
My issues with the lack of veracity and the outright duplicity on display in government and mass media narratives are the result of long experience in being caught up in and in seeing through them. For example, I once accepted the consensus, very naively as it turns out, that eating margarine was better for health than butter!
But please, let’s not make this about me. My comment was about the people who are telling the story. Not about those of us in the audience who are fed up to the teeth with being treated as credulous, gullible and naive by these manipulators of the public mind.
http://www.theblogmire.com/petrov-boshirov-and-the-burden-of-proof/
Why aren’t the mainstream media asking these questions? That is their job. After all, journalism is supposed to be “investigative,” isn’t it? It just goes to show that the corporate media are little more than propaganda mouthpieces. Despite extensive reading on this subject, so far I haven’t seen a shred of evidence showing that the Russian state or individual Russians had anything to do with the Skripal affair. As far as I can see based on the “evidence” presented publicly so far, the British government has no case at all.
Perhaps they should consider hiring Bill Nye to present a convincing case on TV? I can imaging him doing a fun experiment painting Novichok agent on a door handle and warning the viewers, “Don’t try this at home kids!”.
Well Tim, the State, Police and just about everyone else is lying… I, too, have been involved in many MSM stories and, yes, they get it laughingly wrong most of the time, even with their journalism ‘degrees’ (ONC at best in my day). But you really do take it to a certifiable level! Time for the hard hat and tin foil then?
So Florence was basically a tropical storm, some wind, few Anabellum era trees fell over, a foot of flood water down by the creeks. This was touted as proof of global warming from a hurricane on an unprecedented scale. We lost a couple people which is extremely sad, but nothing close to what was predicted came about. The rain bands coming in now are wide and diffuse.
I wonder if the S.C. farmers who harvested corn with high moisture content before the storm, thinking they were saving it from certain destruction will get any breaks on the gas to dry it.
Also, what does this fizzled disaster do to peanut futures?
Pop wrote:
“Also, what does this fizzled disaster do to peanut futures?”
Tragically, peanuts have no future! They were wiped out!
A caring nation mobilizes and aid rushes in.
Pray for peanuts, America, pray for peanuts!
Anderson Cooper does a gripping news story waist-deep in peanut butter…
I think the death toll is now eleven. In the Philippines it is rather higher but I don’t suppose CNN are reporting from there.
Hmm. yes, but when it was a Cat 4/5 it was Donald’s fault but now it was a mere storm who gets the credit?
Didn’t somebody say in the past that the seas would now begin to recede or similar?.
Can’t remember who….
You might want to watch or read the news. DOT- “To avoid North Carolina if traveling south on I-95 drivers should use I-64 West in Virginia to I-81 south, to I-75 south in Tennessee to I-16 East in Georgia back to I-95. This is an extremely long detour, but it is the detour that offers the lowest risk of flooding at this time.” (I-95, 40, and others closed). The Cape Fear river in Fayetteville (not the coast) flood level is 35 feet, they expect it will hit 62 feet tomorrow. Grateful the huge Category 4 Hurricane which did exist lost it’s power as it reached land.
It’s obvious that the homes and businesses behind Mr. Cooper are flooded. Maybe it is just a foot of water, but they are flooded and they have sustained damage. The people who live there will have a lot of work to do when the water recedes, costing them time and money.
That’s the story, Mr. Cooper. It’s a good story. It is enough. If you want to embellish the story in the hopes that you will get more viewers, you will get less. Oops! Too late!
Love the firefighters’ spoof.
Sad thing is, what they communicated about those who are supposed to be reporting about the news and weather is spot on.
Maybe instead of “Fake News” we should call it “Hyped News”?
I don’t have a cell phone so I’m not familiar with all this hash tag stuff.
Make that:
“Maybe instead of ‘(pound sign)Fakenews’ we should call it ‘(pound sign)Hyperdnews’”?
GD, just call it #ClimatePorn.
Brilliant spoof by those guys!
Awww! Give him a little credit. At least he was prepared to get his undies wet!
I suppose it gives more meaning to the phrase, “in depth reporting.”
Socialism . The ideology of deceit.
More a Theology these days, believe or be chastised.
Is your article fake news or just bad reporting? This was filmed during Hurricane Ike. I still say shame on CNN & Cooper, but c’mon, man. Fix your title so it’s accurate.
Just pitiful!
Once again….. from Ike 10 years ago no less, yep check it.
http://guystuff.com.au/media/catalog/product/b/u/bullshit_button_1.jpg
Nope, that’s an image of a bullshit button. Try this,
http://www.allthingsandersoncooper.com/2008/09/ike-day-after.html
too much attitude, not enuf helpful info
Dan Rather started the fake news about hurricanes back in 1962 with his coverage of Hurricane Carla. He was standing on the seawall in Galveston pretending he was right in the path of the hurricane. The only problem was that Carl came ashore down by Corpus a distance of well over a hundred miles. (Yes it was a big powerful storm, my high school was over 75 miles inland and we lost our anemometer at 135 mph) With that stunt he sold is presence to CBS national for a big jump in money and fame. He continued to present fake news during the Vietnam War by staging reporting in front of one of the planes that was lost supplying the troops. He just added smoke from a burning barrel of diesel to simulate how America was losing the war.
Earl, Wow! Thanks.
From a fake Hurricane to Fake but True Nat’l Guard papers, quite a career and it ended the way it started with Fake News. Pride goeth before the fall and did he ever have a lot of pride in himself. Few have so deserved their fate as he did.
Dan Rather has spent a career undermining Republican presidents, and this effort is more important to him than the truth. He’s a dangerous, deluded Leftist. But he is much less dangerous now than back before his credibility was destroyed with the exposure of the lies he was telling.
Unfortunately, we have hundreds of new dan rathers working for the Leftwing News Media today, and distorting the truth and telling outright lies is standard operating procedure for current leftwing reporters, just like for Dan. But, like Dan Rather, their lies and distortions are starting to take a toll on their credibility.
I was actually told by a news person that just the mundane facts will almost always be superseded by the need to create a dramatic story. Catastrophe sells, even if it has to be embellished.
‘Drop The Dead Doney’ on (UK) Channel 4 in the 90s satirized this approach. One of the reporters carried his own teddy bear to enhance warzone stories. It’s on YouTube, recommended.
Another one who had to land while under sniper fire.
That’s pretty low….figuratively and literally – to stand in a ditch to make the situation look more dire than it is.
Dirty as ditchwater
Hurricane ‘FakkNew’ is well and truly outed.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/16/viewers-mock-hurricane-florence-tv-coverage-homemade-catastrophe/