KTVU has Jana Katsuyama doing phoners from Japan describing what she was seeing on... TV Super lame.
KNTV, (NBC Bay Area) has George Kiriyama doing phoners about how he might get to experience a power outage in Tokyo... Really George???
Reaching....
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George did a liveshot via video satellite phone last night
ReplyDeleteAnd on KGO last night Dr Bill was blaming the "environazis" for the nuclear power plant problems that Japan is dealing with.
ReplyDeleteJust so we're clear, these stations have reporters risking their own safety to bring the story home to the Bay Area and its significant Japanese population, and you come back with "reaching"? Pot. Kettle. Black. Why don't you go back to your manic-depressive threatening to quit, mixed in with the "oooh I've got a secret about K-(fill in the blank).
ReplyDeleteI'm a little put off by the large number of testimonials from Americans not near the quake while the clean hands reporters who don't speak Japanese-even the big cable and networks couldnt find any? told us that earthquakes and Tsunamis "are bad".
ReplyDeleteNBC sent that crazy half Japanese loon, Ann Curry -who makes a burger opening a melodramatic moment- to Japan where she emoted like she's off her rocker. She represents? ugh.
I'm also angry at how they sanitize the tragedy for American TV. Like the old Vietnam news on network TV. Americans want this tragedy rated for children's viewing it seems. The same ten clips are repeated over and over...all are "safe".
I saw Katsuyama on tv reporting on what was going on Japanese tv with a tv behind her. I thought it was funny. I thought, why is she in Japan? She could've done the same report from her news truck...
ReplyDeleteIn the good old days they'd send Rigo Chacon to all the dangerous places.
ReplyDeleteWhat was Dr. Bill's beef? If it was up to the enviro-Nazis and bureaucratic bungholes (as he calls them), there wouldn't be ANY nuclear power plants there.
ReplyDeleteI'm all for re-exploring nuclear power in the USA but we'd have to think how would we avert the same crisis that Japan has before we start dropping plants back into earthquake country here. I hope he discussed what we could do to avoid such things.
"Just so we're clear, these stations have reporters risking their own safety to bring the story home"
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You have GOT TO BE KIDDING. Tokyo is hundreds of miles from the actual story. Hiding in a posh hotel room just so your station can say, we're "there" is so far beyond PATHETIC it's disgusting.
Forget which station it was, but the attractive "reporter" said she was receiving much of her info from Twitter and Facebook. Makes you wonder at what point we no longer need the reporters.
ReplyDeleteI'm put off by Europeans, South Asians, and East Coast American reporters who haven't a clue about the relationships of East Asia and the Pacific. Forget screwing up everything Japanese, just get a friggin Pacific-E.Asia map!!!! Like the one with the plate tectonics of the Pacific/EastAsia/Americas.
ReplyDeleteAnd Europeans relate everything to South Asia and the Atlantic....
FYI: Euro South Asian reporters :
Hawaii is majority N.East Asian (exception Filipinos and Pacific Islanders) with the majority of that being Japanese. There's a lonnnnng relationship, historically and economically with Japan. California comes a close second. Why do people from South Asia, Europe and the Atlantic not know this????
I was born and raised in Japan with family in the Tohoku area. The panic of Atlantic USA people is rediculous. The Atlantic Tsunami maps (joke) of the BBC are a complete joke.... showing little geographical relationship with the Pacific Plate.
I like Ann Curry more than I like some South Asian idiot reporting on East Asian Pacific issues which he/she knows an iota about. Even if her Tokyo bang isn't spot-on, she's familiar with the culture. More than I can say about anyone reporting from the BBC.