Gustav Coverage: FOX News Only Channel Not to Show Sign Language
Fox News disappoints again
It isn’t as if I have a high opinion of Fox News to begin with, but when it comes to saving people’s lives you would think their producers could join the grown ups.
Flipping between different media coverage of the press conference on hurricane Gustav with Lousiana Gov. Piyush Jindal and Sec. of Homeland Security Chertoff, there was one outstanding difference between that of Fox, CNN and MSNBC. Fox was the only network not showing the sign language interpreter.
To the right above you can see CNN’s coverage. Below you can see the coverage of Fox News. The interpreter’s right arm could be seen moving, but that’s all. And that’s disgraceful.
Partisanship aside, Fox News has a responsibility to cover pertinent information to the American public, especially in an emergency. Why purposefully edit out the interpreter who could potentially help save lives? At the same time Gov. Jindal was urging those in his state to evacuate, Fox chose to center on the GOP governor, instead of focusing on BOTH people on stage communicating with the televised audience.
This is not nitpicking, it is another example of how Fox News just doesn’t get it, putting aesthetics ahead of vital information.
Even in an emergency, Fox News disappoints again.
Images:http://www.weather.com/multimedia/videoplayer.html?clip=6584&from=hp_main_tab2, cnn.com, foxnews.com
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look..in general you’re clearly a disingenuous partisan so it makes no sense to preface your criticism of fox here
that said..i watch fox and i completely agree with your main point—the person signing the press conf NEEDS to be included because the safety of everyone is more important than aesthetics (though in this sense..i think its just some editor who was just being brainless as they had teh same hurricane picture as everyone else obscuring him)
Aside from the logo of the site, the about section, the tagline, and everything I’ve written in the past year, is my political preference really so obvious?
But seriously, brainless stuff like this only fuels it.