"They're telling me in my ear, 'don't be mean to McCain'." Ooops...Joe slips

[Atman]

Wha-wha-whaaaaaat? I thought you guys were just telling like it is! I thought you wern't scripted or taking directions about how to treat the candidates!

Joe scab, in the midst of a bunch of unintentionally humorous clips of McCain posing with cheese and looking like Grampa lost in the supermarket, stops and says, "Oh, they're telling me in my ear, 'don't be mean to McCain'." Did they also remind you to rip on Obama again, Joe?

:mad:

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[ladjf]

1. McCain has already been promoted beyond his level of competency.

Although I never dreamed that I would see another President as unqualified as G.W.Bush, McCain might be equally inept.

[tekisui]

2. Worthless media.

My disgust grows with the entire outfit daily.

I don't watch the M$M at all anymore. Too enraging.

[Champion Jack]

3. anyone gots video?

[KharmaTrain]

4. The Power Of The Producer

They're the real power on most TV news sets. They're the ones who do most the "dirty work"....while Joe is sleeping or in make-up, these are the people who set up the "shot order"...which guests will be on, what the topic will be...and then when they're on the air they feed questions, direct camera shots and what still pix and graphics are included. My bets are many mornigns Joe ambles in about an hour or so before showtime and everything is laid out for him.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Actually, the director directs the camera shots.

The producer "stacks" the show, they decide the order and amount of time for each story. The Executive Producer is the line producer's boss and tells the producer what to do. The News Director (yes it's confusing) is the Executive Producer's boss and runs the whole department, including now days, the director.

With the modern newsroom computer systems that drive the TelePrompters and order the stories, a manager (News Director or Executive Producer) sitting in his or hers office can micro-manage the broadcast.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Thank You For The Clarification...

I once worked TV back in the stoned ages...I typed the script on in extra large font so I could look down and up at the same time...reports were on film and they had just perfected chroma key...LOL.

The point is that many think its the personality that has control of the show...and in many cases that's not accurate. There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes on these shows and people who make the big decisions that viewers aren't even aware about.

Thank you and cheers...

[Liberal In Texas]

13. I'm just being picky, but your basic thought is correct.

When I left the biz 4 years ago, the movement was to not use paper any more. All the scripts would be on computer and therefore read off the prompter. Each anchor position had a computer monitor embedded in the desk, so it would be possible to read the story off that instead of the prompter if it went astray. All the air talent wear IFB's so the director and producers in the control room can talk directly to them in their ears.

Everyone is in front of a computer monitor and the managers constantly IM and add and delete stories; micro-managing the whole thing. It's one of the reasons I got out after 30+ years.

[malaise]

9. Bingo

They push the talking points non-stop.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. "Grampa lost in the supermarket"

Excuse me, but that's Grampa Dairy Delights lost in the supermarket!

[tanyev]

6. He should have tried giving out free cheese samples if he wanted to draw a crowd.

[DearAbby]

10. "Clean up in the dairy isle..."

"someone cut the cheese."

[City Lights]

11. Phuc GE TeeVee.

On the bright side, at least Joe 'dead intern' Scarborough confirmed our suspicions about the network that employs him.

[Mike Daniels]

12. Ever gather that he may have been yanking a chain?

Joe S. apparently seems to revel in the charges the left throws around about the media.

Given that, I'm betting that he's just baiting the "Cheeto eating bloggers who live in their parent's basement (his words)" to see if he can get a rise out of someone. Lord knows he seems to get a kick out of reading the "F You" e-mails that get sent to the show.

[annabanana]

14. k&r . .I hope Crooks & Liars picks it up. (more noise should be made)

If they said that in his ear... those pics in the supermarket must be pretty funny.

[redqueen]

15. not surprising though, really

imagine what we'd hear if they were all somehow forced to tell the truth about how the news gets to be so skewed...