CNN PRODUCERS TOLD ON-AIR GUESTS: GET ANGRY

Mon Sep 12 2005 12:42:11 ET

After weeks of intense Katrina coverage from the main press, LA TIMES guru and former CNN host Michael Kinsley divulges that CNN was coaching guests to artificially enhance emotions!

Kinsley writes:

“The TV news networks, which only a few months ago were piously suppressing emotional fireworks by their pundits, are now piously encouraging their news anchors to break out of the emotional straitjackets and express outrage. A Los Angeles Times colleague of mine, appearing on CNN last week to talk about Katrina, was told by a producer to ‘get angry.’”

Developing…

You know, there should be enough anger about the aftermath of Katrina that CNN wouldn’t have to manufacture it… But then again, who does it help if people are artificially angry? Or more specifically, who does it hurt? And who are most of them amping up their anger at?

Something to ponder as you watch the animated talking heads on the unbiased and fair mainstream media. If anything could summarize why I’m not watching the coverage at all, and am instead reading it, this is it.