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”:
Google it. It’s not even Hurricane Florence, but Ike, 2008. He waded around in the water to show various depths, even commented he could take 2 more steps and be neck deep, stepped forward, which showed more shallow water, in the show. So much for THIS fake news and those jumping on board, lol.
So Anderson Cooper’s CNN viewers are so dumb they don’t know that in some places in a flood, the water can be deeper than other places because of the terrain? And he was just explaining that to them?
Lol ‘Not Chicken Little’. Yeah, just like people need to be shown, or told to not drive on flooded roads, or like everyone needs to see the reporters standing out in the wind driven rain, hurricanes or other dangerous conditions, by any network. What I find really amusing on this thread is that it seems CNN haters are all worked up over this alleged fake news, yet have been in support of DJT, who I saw during his campaign say 3 different things to attract 3 different groups of people,on various topics, and so many only heard the one they wanted to hear, oblivious to the others. 😮 There was some newspaper article pages long quoting (could be seen on video too) the contradictions. Yet there’s some angry finger pointing at “CNN lies”. Projection. Diversion. Attempts anyway.
You’re right Karen, the amusing thing is that during the clip Anderson was continually pointing out that the water on the road was only shallow, that’s where the film crew was. So the bogus suggestion that he was faking to make it appear worse than it was it is ridiculous.
Karen, in the 2016 Presidential election we had two New York politicians running against each other. That’s who the two parties nominated. Yet you think we’re supposed to be shocked that New York politicians lie?
Unfortunately, that’s what they do.
But journalists are supposed to be honest. That’ssupposed to be part of their job description!
Don’t get me wrong: I hate that politicians lie. But I’ve come to expect it, and a politician can be successful even if he or she is not trustworthy.
That is not true of a journalist. An untrustworthy journalist is a bad journalist. Always.
The highest goal for a politician would be to accomplish something important; e.g., in DJT’s case it is could be that he straightened out the awful mess that BHO made in Iraq.
The highest goal for a journalist should be to be likened to Walter Cronkite, a/k/a “The Most Trusted Man In America.”™
Unlike a politician, a journalist cannot be both good at his job and untrustworthy.
Unfortunately, Anderson Cooper and CNN are not trustworthy.
For example, in the CNN/Cooper rebuttal to Don Jr, they claimed that one of the reasons he was standing in deep water in the ditch was to avoid getting in the way of evacuees and rescue vehicles. That was a lie, proved by the fact that his camera crew (tethered to him with cables) were on higher ground, so that their equipment wouldn’t get wet.
If Cooper had been standing on higher ground, like his camera crew, he obviously would not have been in the way of rescue vehicles and evacuees. He wouldn’t have been blocking anyone who wasn’t already blocked by his camera crew, who were on that higher ground.
So when Cooper claimed that one of the reasons he was standing in deep water in the ditch was to stay out of the way of rescue vehicles, he obviously lied.
In fact, I’d be willing to bet that CNN’s vehicle was also parked there, on the edge of the road, just outside the camera shot, a far bigger obstruction than the people on Cooper’s camera crew. I very much doubt that Cooper and his crew hiked down that road on foot, with all their equipment, and a great big battery to power it, to do that shoot.
The real reason Cooper was standing in that deep water was for dramatic effect, to hype the severity of the emergency, which is the same reason he pointed out that the flood water had recently been even higher.
Anderson Cooper and CNN are untrustworthy. And that makes them bad journalists.
I just did a Google Image Search for “The most trusted man in America” (in quotes). The first seven images were of Walter Cronkite alone, and the 8th was Walter Cronkite interviewing JFK:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22The+most+trusted+man+in+America%22&tbm=isch
Way down the page, there was even a picture of Hillary Clinton 😉 (I don’t know why). Unsurprisingly, Anderson Cooper’s picture was not to be found.
How do you link directly to the video of the fireman?
How do you link directly to the video?
Cooper trying to be a hero… sad lies from CNN
Hilarious! But maybe the deep state doesn’t appreciate ridicule, because there appears to be another spelling hack attack… “Anerson Cooper…standing in the ditch wheer the water is deeper…”
In the 1933 Atlantic storm a great many tropical land birds were apparently trapped within the eye and carried to Newfoundland–Mayhew, D. F. 1949. Atmospheric pressure and bird flight. Science. 109:403.
The 1916 storm stranded fish at Rockport* from offshore winds and killed an unknown number of coastal seabirds. Sell, R. A.. 1917. Some notes on the effects upon the bird life after Corpus Christi storm of August 18, 1916. Condor. 19:43-46.
*Harvey strike point, currently exceeding 20 inches rain, fish in street, drainage plan, if you can call it that, didn’t work. Pleistocene barrier island, Carolina Bay type ponds, some now flooding places built when drier. Texas history full of really dry and really wet periods. History, what’s that?
A collection of these fake news videos widely seen would put an end to it. Also, these guys go in when its a tropical depression and stand in the rain. You know its over when firemen can stand around joking about the news guys. On CNN, an eye witness stunt reporter “had a ‘communications’ problem when rain had stopped so they switched him off and they ‘fixed’ the problem and he was brought back when a rain shower returned. You know when the rain quits, even temporarily with such a storm, the thing is in its final gasp at that location. I think it a good idea to enlist volunteer citizen reporters as with the surface stations’ investigation to defrock these grifters regularly. They would be doing a solemn duty to answer the question of the First Amendment: “Freedom of the press to do what?”
Oh, I how could I forget to include this above. Lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4
Certainly Not News!
You do not need hurricanes to recognize the fake news of the world press-
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The true picture of the Charlie Hebdo “World Leader” demonstration:
And this fake picture appeared in the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/opinion/after-the-charlie-hebdo-attack-the-french-join-hands.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Actually, in the second picture, that looks like the lost little group of the first picture is the vanguard of a huge crowd of people. which in fact demonstrated on the parallel running avenue off the screened politician.
You do not have to wonder why Trump won the US presidential election. Why are not these idiots too bad for such actions? Nobody knows, but it does not testify to high intelligence.
How many power cables hanging down in to the water? I think they were in more danger from stoopidity than any weather!
Reminds me of the old saying: “When you are in a hole – fill it with water”
I remember years ago when a news anchor was in a kayak, and while she was on the air someone walked through the ankle-deep water behind her.
“The only way you can get across the street…”
https://youtu.be/zbjXJM8_qus
Has Anderson Cooper ever been known to lie? … (/sarc.)
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You’re a LIAR, and Anderson just schooled all like you in the last segment of his program. Stop spreading FAKE news.
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Too much moonshine methinks!
For all of you please see the reply from Anderson Cooper to get the truth of the matter. Some of you will be hopefully a little humbled after some of the comments you have written. We know that some weather related stories are exaggerated but at least try and understand the background to this story before letting your imagination run riot.
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/09/18/donald-trump-jr-anderson-cooper-debunks-florence-twitter-photo-kth-sot-ac.cnn
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anderson-cooper-donald-trump-jr-florence_us_5ba06ae8e4b046313fbe8b5e
So the photo is from Ike a decade ago and not from Florence. I thought Cooper looked awfully young when I first saw the photo. I will admit. I was wrong. Anderson Cooper has been faking the news for longer than I gave him credit for faking news.
Still, I believe a correction is in order. We were all doped into thinking the photo was from last week, and apparently it wasn’t. We were wrong. Sorry Mr. Cooper. Our bad!
Now…will you kindly condemn Time magazine for their photoshopped picture of the crying child and President Trump? Will you please acknowledge that the photos of children sleeping in chain link cages were taken when Obama was president, and launch an equally scathing attack at the former President for his horrible human rights violations, and apologize to President Trump? Will you finally admit that the 89, 682 stories on Trump and Russian collusion that you incessantly talked about forever where baseless, fabricated news stories, and call yourself an idiot for ever bringing it up?
No. I am sure you won’t. When it comes to ‘getting the story right’ , you apparently hold a much higher standard for the President’s son than you do yourself and the mainstream media. Your repuke to those of us who mistakenly thought you were faking news in Hurricane Florence when you were actually faking news in Hurricane Ike, is truly disgusting! You see…we made a mistake. You on the other hand, have a long history of intentionally lying about the news to fit your emotional ideology. If we are idiots, it is not because we mistakenly dated a photo. We are idiots for listening to you at all for all of these years!
sent link to CNN now.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/politics/anderson-cooper-vs-donald-trump-jr-cnntv/index.html
Yup, I live on the coast in North Carolina and I never saw a drop of rain in the past week! Calm and sunny every single day! Fake MSM weather news to get us to leave home so our houses can be looted!
I disagree that this is a problem. Sure, Cooper is dramatisizing the flooding but on the other hand, isn’t the eye always drawn to the worst flooding? Like, “My God Earl, look it over here- it’s up to my waist!” I think anyone would look for the deepest spot. That’s where the most curiosity is. As long as CNN is being clear about their reporting, as long as they’re saying, “floodwaters have risen UP TO 3 FEET.” And NOT “the town is COVERED IN 3 FEET of WATER” I’m ok with it. I think we can all agree that we want accurate, but exciting news coverage.
How many of you actually listened to the report? It was all about Cooper talking about the fact that waters were receding and they had been higher. Why on earth would he do that if he was trying to make it seem deeper than it was? Are some of you insane or just stupid? And if you watched him walk in the water you’d know he couldn’t have been on his knees — how stupid was that comment?