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Well, she could not say “ballsy” on network news. But words like brazen or audacious might have been a better choice. But she did qualify it as crazy, not sure why this is such a big deal. I would not call what she said “outrageous” or “shocking”.
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This is the problem with live BREAKING NEWS coverage: The news readers think they have to talk the entire time. Non-stop talk leads to verbal diarrhea.
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Sometimes I’ve wondered why we all see courage as an absolutely positive ideal…too often I end up equating it with stupid.
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Unfortunately, that’s what the whole news cycle has become. Rather than trying to cover as much news as possible, the networks talk and talk and talk and never bother to actually say anything.
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QuoteFix:
“I misspoke, and in no way believe I should report what I see honestly."
There’s a paycheck at stake for chrissake!
jw1
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I was watching old archive footage of November 22, 1963 over the weekend. Really interesting to watch. “Special Report: President Kennedy has been shot, perhaps fatally.” Then they went back to regular programming for 20-30 minutes while they warmed the cameras up.
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Maybe it was a dumb thing to say, because someone as deranged as this guy must have been can’t really be measured by the same psychological yardstick as the rest of us, but not worth destroying her career over. Reminds me of the ridiculous dust-up over Bill Maher and Dinesh D’Souza about whether or not the 9/11 hijackers were “cowardly.” Brave, evil, and stupid are far from mutually exclusive traits.
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Exactly. Lots of harm in the world is caused by courage exercised in the name of evil.
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yep. I honestly miss the days when the news was far less instantaneous. Someone was kvetching about our local station giving blurbs of stories on their site when a news story just breaks instead of flooding the page with nonsense.
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Just can’t help thinking this unfortunate choice of words would have been a bit less of a “thing” for conservatives if it came out of a blonde bobblehead…
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What I found most amazing about that November 22 coverage was Walter Cronkite signing off at 1 am. “We are now signing off because everything that can be said has been said.” CBS went black and didn’t start broadcasting again until about 6 Saturday morning.
Then there was 18 April 1930 when the BBC announced that nothing significant happened that day and reported no news.
Those were the days.
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I sincerely apologize for “misspeaking” when I call Ms. Whitfield an absolute fucking moron.
As usual , apologise AFTER you have said … ( which makes it ok )
Fredricka has been a weekend anchor her entire career at CNN and I find that unconscionable.
I think the proper correlation with misguided courage is “foolhardiness” Were the kamikaze pilots of WW II courageous? Of course. It takes a certain type of courage to strap yourself to a flying bomb that the wheels fall off of when you take off. Is it foolhardy? Of course. Throwing your life away to prolong an already lost cause cannon be judged anything else (at least by our cultural standards).
I think the sentiment is summed up in the motto of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard: La Garde meurt mais ne se rend pas (“The Guard dies, but it does not surrender.”)
Foolhardiness is often confused with courage.
I think the better quote might be “You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend upon your point of view.”
What is courageous and what is stupid or foolhardy really do depend upon one’s point of view.
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Yes, but this is true regardless of the subject at hand.
Life is like a parade: What you see depends on where you stand.
Unfortunately, too many people seem to be standing right behind the elephant.