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”:
That firemen’s spoof is the funniest thing I’ve seen in years, in spite of it taking 10mins to download onto my desktop. Well worth the wait.
Do you laugh, cry or simply mark it down as ‘Climate Science’
What is nice, I do *really* mean that, is that the water in those pics isn’t brown & muddy
good
Yet another example of outlandish theatrics used to sell a false narrative. When will the CAGW crowd learn….
Most of this coverage in oz has had the word “Catastrophic ” in it somewhere , I’m just not sure which video was the spoof and which one was supposed to be serious ?
Apparently the Anderson Cooper photo is around 10 years old, here it is circulating last year. https://twitter.com/TheodoreBNolan/status/909493450877390848
Interesting that you felt the need to dredge up a photograph from over 10 years ago from a report he did on Hurricane Ike
https://goo.gl/images/dn1fCo
just so you know- that wasn’t anderson cooper in 2018
but i don’t suppose there will be any grief over it cuz it is just so gake and fay.
http://www.allthingsandersoncooper.com/2008/09/ike-day-after.html
Whilst it is humorous to see these people caught out it is important not to miss the main point. It is not just CNN that does this, the reality is the entirety of the media do it, all around the world, even the supposed ‘gold standard’ names. And it is not just when covering weather events, it is literally every item of ‘news’ that is exaggerated, twisted or otherwise manipulated to be more eye-catching or provoking or emotional. That is the reality of the media, nothing we see or hear hasn’t been ‘adjusted’ in some way. I first learned this lesson in school when our teacher distributed two national newspapers, one supporting the Labour Party, the other the Conservative party and asked us to compare and contrast the stories regarding the same events. It was reinforced when I used to listen to the BBC of a night time in the 1980s and the World Service would be broadcast. Again the same news as reported for domestic consumption was completely different for foreign consumption. It was particularly edifying that it was often the World Service that turned out to be the most accurate.
You ought to see ABC (Aust) make a ‘science’ program, for TV (it’s like watching Lucifer at his day job). Literally everyone involved agrees to quietly make up a lie and to invent a polished staged visual and audio narrative or myth, that has zero to do with ‘science’, it’s all faked.
Then TPTB wonder why what they imagine to be ‘science’ is so unattractive to most students, as a profession and career. If I’d known then what I know now I also would not have bothered studying science. In the end I realized my mistake and started up a business instead soon after graduating and realized that was what I should have been studying. Science research soon became a hobbie interest rather than a career interest.
If you like sausage best not watch sausage being made. The media wag-the-tail ‘science’ will definitely turn you off science as a career. Scientists I knew just went along with making the fake media sausage because it was all money in the bank for them. So it remains a piece of cake for ABC to co-opt any scientist into make any variety or flavor of sausage.
As with the necessary separation of Church and State in prior centuries, I think we need two essential things to end the worst aspects of this process of corruption:
1) Separation of science and media.
2) Separation of politics and media.
Without that there will be no end to the fakes and the wagging of the dog syndrome. The media are a systemically corrupting pest that needs to be put in its proper place.
I Love it!
Except these ladies are not throwing in constant inconsistent nonsense. e.g. “This storm had a zero chance of happening”, courtesy weather channel and their team of parakeets.
how about this classic CNN
Mike Seidel and Anderson Cooper’s fakes are just the tip of the iceberg, although they claim to be the eye of the hurricane.
When DJT again and again made statements against the journo-fakists, I thought he was exaggerating. He was not.
Very ironic that y’all are up in arms over “fake news” when what you are reading is fake. That picture/broadcast is old. Not Florence. Maybe y’all should stop spreading fake news, get your heads out of your ass and research stuff instead off being sheeple.http://www.allthingsandersoncooper.com/2008/09/ike-day-after.html?m=1
(You can come in with this as your FIRST comment, but lets drop the name calling for the next time) MOD
This is a very good example for how trustworthy WUWT is considered to be. What is on display here is almost always taken as fact. What is considered MSM on TV or in print media has to be taken not with a grain, but with a lorryload of salt. I love WUWT facts better than MSM fiction.
I recognized that photo, and did a reverse Google image search. It was tweeted on Sept. 2017. Someone responded to the tweet that it was “10 years old”, but I couldn’t find and earlier account of it in Google. But I’m sure it wasn’t from Florence.
You are correct it. It is from 2008 during Hurricane Ike. During a portion of the report where Anderson Cooper was reporting on, in part the dangers of going thru flood waters and the dangers of hidden low spots.
I watch CNN a lot and it has some good political debate and usually a well rounded guest list from both sides of the divide – of course some is biased but you get that from all networks (look at the BBC!) . As a viewer you need to consider information from different sources – this is why WUWT is so important to me. What is obvious, from CNN and other networks, is a temptation for the dramatic and to make things look a lot worse than they are – especially for weather related stories. But let’s remember, Florence was always going to be a long slow flooding event, similar to Harvey. I guess they just couldn’t wait for the dramatic footage that they will unfortunately find next week when rivers crest and cause the devastation that was predicted.
On the subject of fake reporters, the classic is the reporter who got the fly in his mouth on live TV. He went from perfect English with a reporters voice to his normal voice in 2 seconds. His excessive use of the F word prevents me from posting it here but just Google “reporter gets fly in his mouth” for a great laugh.
Anderson has mastered the use art of wearing chest waders as I see no suspenders, every wader I used required suspenders otherwise, due to the loosened and weight of the waders, the waders would constantly be falling down to my feet after each step.
Ok, this might be a good place for my question: wtf is going on at Accuweather? When TS Gordon hit the Gulf Coast, I went to their site to check out the conditions in Bay St Louis, where I have a house. They showed HURRICANE Gordon was causing 72 mph winds (current conditions) in that city. Gordon NEVER reached hurricane status, and never had wind speeds that high. The storm hit about thirty miles to the east. Weather.com was showing 14 mph winds. The next day, Accuweather was reporting 42 mph winds; weather.com, 6 mph.
Today I checked out accuweather to see how much rain has fallen in Charleston, SC. Under their ‘extended forecast’ for that city, they are showing it has received over 50 inches of rain so far in September, with more to come. Florence has missed the city (got a quarter of an inch, yesterday). The city might have gotten a couple of inches of rain so far this month.
How can they sell subscriptions for this garbage? Joe A and Joe B made the right decision to leave that mess.
I knew Accuweather had become useless and co-opted by the Eco-Nazis when every post I entered in their “climate” blog began to be rejected (for calling Eco Nazis what they are), while the “moderators” routinely let the repeated “denier” labeling to continue unfettered.
I was surprised to see an Accuweather headline about CATEGORY 4 HURRICANE hitting North Carolina, with a picture of half or more of the state colored in red, making it look like the whole area was in for the Cat 4. It turns out the red was to indicate a lot of rain in those areas. Misleading. I guess clickbait to get you to pay more attention to them? But so many just read headlines, or rely just on pictures like above 😉
I’ll bet that there are plenty of genuine stories, well worth reporting, about this rather nasty storm. Why does CNN (and others) resort to such nonsense?
I Love it!
It’s fake news to use photos from 2008 and send them around the internet saying they are from 2018. This is Katrina and the water is that deep behind him.
Katrina was in 2005, although you are correct in saying the photos were from 2008. As many other comments say, the year was 2008 and the storm was Ike. Given what I saw in the comments after searching for Katrina and 2005 and looking for Ike and 2008, I wonder why Anthony Watts brought up both years and both storms. It’s easy to check what year each of these storms happened in.
Somebody should’ve wiggled the line to Cooper’s mic. and yelled “Water Moccasin!!”
The firemen have the video of the year. Hope it headlines on Drudge Report!
Maybe they can release a longer clip including the kitchen sink, a large screen TV, some cows, stuffed animals, a big tree dragging by, a few tires rolling by, maybe a VW bug, and a cat in the wind. An old granny in a wheel chair rolling by upwind would do the final trick!
ROFLMAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zpiOeIbmw
we’re not in kansas any more…
LOL
A modern day scene from the “Wizard of Oz”.
Don’t forget to include the MJ ‘moonwalk’ and the strawman and the new famous slippers !!!
You could even have a black van stop and throw the old lady in like a slab of beef where she loses her slipper!
LOL
A little historical perspective on Anderson Cooper and the “give him a little credit” theme.
The summer of 2005, I was writing a book that caused me many sleepless nights: brain would just not shut down. I got in the habit of switching on CNN for a bit. Then came August and the hurricanes. I found the hype for all of them very amusing and somehow relaxing: all the build up with only a fallen tree or ripped awning to show for it. I believe there were two (maybe three) of those that I watched before Katrina hit.
Katrina looked to be unfolding just like the others, until Anderson Cooper showed that it wasn’t. I forgot the book and watched it all unfold, for three days straight.
He did his job that hurricane, I’ll always give him credit for that. But their coverage was never the same again.
Looking heroic without the risk. It is called deception, something expected in a magic show except the magician looks smart, not heroic. Although the magician may exaggerate, a little.
I understood what sort of person Anderson Cooper is a long time ago. I was using a satellite receiver to monitor raw news feeds on some weather related topic, and came across a CNN feed. It was Anderson Cooper prepping the mayor of some small town for an interview.
The interview took place, and as soon as they were off-air, the mayor tried to tell Cooper that a few of the questions were misleading, and he had missed some important positive items. Cooper ignored him, just turned and walked away. One of the most rude and dismissive attitudes I have ever seen.
Never watched anything of his since.
This isn’t Hurricane Florence. This is from Hurricane Ike.