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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
hey, Im not gonna apologize for only being shown one instance of that from the media you're so vehemently defending....maybe if ya'll showed more of that, people like the creator of foamy wouldnt feel the need to rant about it huh?
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It's not our job to glorify what we're doing down there. If I'm given the choice between dedicating my 2 minutes of air to either showing the human suffering down there or showing me rescuing some guy, I'm gonna show the human suffering. THAT is the story. I am not the story.
It's the same thing as covering a bad traffic accident. If I get there before the EMT's get there, I'll start CPR if necessary and try to help the victims. Once the EMT's, who are much more qualified than I am, get there, I'll pull back and let them do their job while I do mine.
There are a lot of people down there who are much better equipped and who are much better qualified to help the victims than the reporters and photographers are. It's absolutely stupid to get angry at someone for letting the more experienced rescuer do his job.
I'm defending the media because they are doing what they are supposed to do, and then they are going above and beyond what they are supposed to do to try and help, yet people still insist on ragging on the guys who are out there.
I've covered enough hurricanes to know what they're going through, and it's not fun. I also know how much they want to help and how helpless they feel that they can't help more. That's not fun either. They do not deserve this idiotic anger that's being unjustly directed at them.