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FNC Sleeps on another international story

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Major earthquake (8.8 initial shock) in Chile during the night - and a tsunami warning for Hawaii. Was checking the news channels this morning (around 8:30 ET/7:30 CT) and found that CNN was all over the story, showing off how good they can be; Univision and Telemundo were doing an awesome job; and MSNBC was providing live coverage.

Where was Fox News? On my first check, spending an entire segment talking about the health effects of aspirin. Yeah, aspirin, wow. Another check in found them focusing on that breaking story about the Carly Simon's inspiration for "You're So Vain" - another earth-shattering story. Alyson Camarotta may have talked about Chile at one point, but my numerous check-ins never found it - so they couldn't have spent much time. I'm as big a defender as there is here of Fox News, but you can't call yourself a real news channel when you pass up an international story like this for the usual fluff and crap. The stuff I saw on FNC this morning could have easily been taped yesterday. It was crap.

Yet another international story where CNN takes FNC to school (same thing happened with Haiti). Not to mention that the concerns here do extend to the US as Hawaii (and Alaska) could be in for a decent sized tsunami. If you're number one, you need to act like it!

By the way, ABC's GMA was just as negligent on this. They seemed more concerned about Killer Whales at Sea World than they did about the earthquake. ::)
 
An overused U.S. TV news slogan has now transcended languages.

CNN Chile--otherwise visually and aurally in Spanish--is using the
banner "breaking news" (in English) as part of its graphics.

Rick Sanchez on CNN is translating some of the CNN Chile
commentary "on the fly," and while he obviously understands it,
I'm wondering if Chilean Spanish is markedly different from, say,
"Miami Spanish." More Castillian perhaps?
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
An overused U.S. TV news slogan has now transcended languages.

CNN Chile--otherwise visually and aurally in Spanish--is using the
banner "breaking news" (in English) as part of its graphics.

Rick Sanchez on CNN is translating some of the CNN Chile
commentary "on the fly," and while he obviously understands it,
I'm wondering if Chilean Spanish is markedly different from, say,
"Miami Spanish." More Castillian perhaps?
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Yes, it is a different accent and they use more proper Spanish words than you'd hear in Miami (where the accent is strong and Cuban). Chileans speak fairly clearly, but often very fast and using some different words than are heard in places like Mexico.

I like it best when they just run the local coverage as Univision was doing for a while. The national channels in Chile aren't overusing the 'Breaking News' thing as CNN Chile is doing (yes, CNN has it's own cable channel in Chile - they normally have national reporters during prime news hours and use CNN en Espanol the rest of the time).
 
FNC was too busy trying to figure out a way to blame the quake on Obama. Once they do that, they'll be all over it.
 
YEKIMI said:
FNC was too busy trying to figure out a way to blame the quake on Obama. Once they do that, they'll be all over it.
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See, this is exactly what I was referring to - different levels of coverage. MSNBC was reporting that a combination of Global Warming and Halliburton were responsible for this! You just never know who to believe. ;)
 
BRNout said:
YEKIMI said:
FNC was too busy trying to figure out a way to blame the quake on Obama. Once they do that, they'll be all over it.
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See, this is exactly what I was referring to - different levels of coverage. MSNBC was reporting that a combination of Global Warming and Halliburton were responsible for this! You just never know who to believe. ;)
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While Fox News was reporting that the Chilean earthquake was Obama's fault. The quake was caused by a communist Obama plot to unearth and reanimate the body of Salvador Allende. Glenn Beck was diagramming the plot on his chalk board, until he got choked up and tearful.

Personally, I prefer the Halliburton explanation. ;)
 
According to a friend of mine, it's was caused by a faction of the New World Order. The quake in Haiti was a "test run" by them he said and this one was another "test run" just bigger. ::)
 
YEKIMI said:
According to a friend of mine, it's was caused by a faction of the New World Order. The quake in Haiti was a "test run" by them he said and this one was another "test run" just bigger. ::)
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You forgot to include the Trilateral Commission. One of my wackier friends lent me a book by British author and lecturer David Icke (he pronounces it "Ike"), who claims...among other things...that the dimension we live in (3rd) is totally controlled by beings from the 4th Dimension. My response to my friend is that we don't need to worry because the 4th Dimension is controlled by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. (the Fifth Dimension).

Oh - and Icke claims the environmental and global warming movements are really a secret plot to exterminate billions of people worldwide. I guess that makes Al Gore a potentially bigger genocidal maniac than Hitler and Stalin. Fox News might like that theory. ;D

There are lots of nutty theories out there. What's amazing to me is that there are plenty of people who are willing to believe almost anything.
 
Dispensing with the left/right political-leaning bashing,
I'd rather diss the cable nets for coverage goofs...

Fox News kept showing the wrong Hawaii local time
until a few minutes ago--they were fonting 10:XX AM
instead of 11:XX AM. At 11:26 HST I finally saw them
showing the correct time.
 
Somebody call George Clooney..He has to do another telethon. He did one for Haiti..It's only fair he do one for Chile. Also line up the US bashers to b***ch about not enough aid going to Chile...Screw the Hawaiians. They are Americans and deserve it for all the evil we do in the world.

"Sarcasm mod"
 
Re: FNC Sleeps on another international story (Not really)

I was watching the news around 3-6am as the first reports came in and Fox was covering it from their newsroom. They were mainly cutting in a few times from the newsroom set and then going back to programming a few times, but they were covering the opening moments of the story just as much as CNN. They just weren't moving everything aside because it was still dark in Chile and there were only a few video streams coming in (from Chilean TV), so I don't put any blame on them for intermittent coverage when they would be just looping the same information over and over.

Meanwhile it took CNN an hour to get into full coverage and they had some technical snafus, continuing to air an inane LKL about prison wives and for some reason, starting the Campbell Brown rerun at 3:55am, but they eventually went into full coverage. MSNBC finished airing curling and went right into coverage at 5:30am with news briefs during commercial breaks.

So yes, Fox News was covering it. Let's not forget that many of these US news channels had to depend on Chilean TV for coverage since there's sparse sister networks in South America beyond CNN's Latin American operations, and local broadcast networks dominate in their countries for news coverage.
 
Re: FNC Sleeps on another international story (Not really)

mrschimpf said:
I was watching the news around 3-6am as the first reports came in and Fox was covering it from their newsroom. They were mainly cutting in a few times from the newsroom set and then going back to programming a few times, but they were covering the opening moments of the story just as much as CNN. They just weren't moving everything aside because it was still dark in Chile and there were only a few video streams coming in (from Chilean TV), so I don't put any blame on them for intermittent coverage when they would be just looping the same information over and over.

Meanwhile it took CNN an hour to get into full coverage and they had some technical snafus, continuing to air an inane LKL about prison wives and for some reason, starting the Campbell Brown rerun at 3:55am, but they eventually went into full coverage. MSNBC finished airing curling and went right into coverage at 5:30am with news briefs during commercial breaks.

So yes, Fox News was covering it. Let's not forget that many of these US news channels had to depend on Chilean TV for coverage since there's sparse sister networks in South America beyond CNN's Latin American operations, and local broadcast networks dominate in their countries for news coverage.
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But when it counted this morning, CNN was all over the story; MSNBC was giving it proper coverage and Fox was goofing off. That was my point. Having watched the coverage all day, CNN is still outperforming FNC and MSNBC by a mile. Yes, they have the resources - and it shows.

At least Fox got better as the day wore on. Still not as good as CNN but not frustratingly deaf as they were this morning. Like ABC's Good Morning America was. There's a news organization that was just slashed and that was very evident this morning too.

Look, I am the very first one to take offense to the eggheads who refer to FNC as "faux news" because it's a gross mischaracterization. But it's irksome when they so obviously bungle these big international stories and come off as tabloidish. They can and should do better. The anchors may not realize that Fox News is on cable in parts of Central and South America too - though they should.
 
Re: FNC Sleeps on another international story (Not really)

mrschimpf said:
I was watching the news around 3-6am as the first reports came in and Fox was covering it from their newsroom. They were mainly cutting in a few times from the newsroom set and then going back to programming a few times, but they were covering the opening moments of the story just as much as CNN. They just weren't moving everything aside because it was still dark in Chile and there were only a few video streams coming in (from Chilean TV), so I don't put any blame on them for intermittent coverage when they would be just looping the same information over and over.

Meanwhile it took CNN an hour to get into full coverage and they had some technical snafus, continuing to air an inane LKL about prison wives and for some reason, starting the Campbell Brown rerun at 3:55am, but they eventually went into full coverage. MSNBC finished airing curling and went right into coverage at 5:30am with news briefs during commercial breaks.

So yes, Fox News was covering it. Let's not forget that many of these US news channels had to depend on Chilean TV for coverage since there's sparse sister networks in South America beyond CNN's Latin American operations, and local broadcast networks dominate in their countries for news coverage.
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Please note - Hawaii is a liberal Democrat state. I'll also note that Obama is originally from Hawaii (unless you buy the line that he was born in Kenya). Therefore, Hawaii is Communist...or Nazi, not sure which. So therefore, I'm sure Pat Robertson would say that they made a pact with Satan, and therefore deserve to be wiped out by a tsunami.
 
I am not one to defend Fox, but they were ALL OVER the Chile earthquake from 11a-1pm eastern today. However, they seemed to be "guessing" on the tsunami warnings, which seemed a bit amatuerish.

Later they had a fluff piece about Nascar rescuing the Vegas economy...so maybe the op is right.

As for CNN, don't mean to sound callous, but they are "The Earthquake Network". They stayed in Haiti longer than anyone, and will probably try to duplicate their coverage with this event.
 
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