BS: congratulating a newsreader

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: autolycus
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 03:02 PM

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeesult !!!!!!




   So there's something to being a newsreader(caster) with a conscience.





       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: alanabit
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 07:35 PM

Promoting her is about as sensible a response as they could have made. That will do fine!

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 06:47 PM

Yahoo.

No answer, but then I didn't expect to get an answer. What the hell they gonna say?

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 09:00 PM

Best news of MY week, Don

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 01:13 PM

HOT DOGGIES!!

This item from the CBS News web site. After describing what she did on camera, the report goes on to say:

She attracted the world's attention. Brzezinski's gotten over a thousand e-mails, and was named "woman of the week" by a British Web site. She's been invited to address a media symposium in Scotland. The New Zealand Herald hailed her: "Deliberate or not, there is no denying the incident struck a chord with viewers the world over. When it comes to Paris, we've all had enough."

It may be a coincidence, but three days after the incident MSNBC told Brzezinski that she'll have a regular hour to anchor the news each morning.

I guess after the viewer response, MSNBC would have been committing suicide if they fired her.

HOSANNA!! Way to go, girl!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: GUEST,ibo
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 10:31 AM

well done mr macdonald,is that okay?

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: alanabit
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 05:35 PM

I haven't either, but it sure felt good to support that fine lady. Has anyone heard whether she is still employed?

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don Firth
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 04:53 PM

I included my e-mail address, but I haven't received any response yet.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 03:04 PM

Thanks, Fools, sorry I missed your reply earlier.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: autolycus
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:48 PM

I don't suppose anyone had a reply, did they?



(The bastRDS)





      Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Jul 07 - 10:21 AM

kat

That item was mentioned on the ABC TV (Aust) 'Media Watch' show about the time I made the original post. I don't know if it is still on their web site...

Sadly, It is for real - and I had enough contacts in the right places to find out what happened, thus I know that it was a bodged 'MS Word to HTML conversion' normal stuffup... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 04:13 PM

Fools, is that seriously a real quote as is? Some of the most disjointed, messed-up writing I've ever read!

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: alanabit
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 03:21 PM

Nice one Don T. I sent an e-mail of links to Peace's clip and link to the editor to everyone in my address book. I hope they get inundated with messages.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 02:59 PM

Just sent another one, signed with my name and address.

"I wish to compliment Mika for having the cajones to refuse to do the Paris Hilton intro to the news on the show. It is about time someone in the media stood up and said, "Enough of this shit." I have become a new fan of hers, along with tens of thousands--if not hundreds of thousands--of viewers. Too bad there aren't some people like her in federal politics, south or north of the border."

*****************************************************

I ain't holdin' my breath for an answer. Be interesting to see if we all get the SAME answer. Maybe we should compose it now and be done with the angst.

"Dear _________:

Thank you for your e-mail/letter/telephone call regarding Mika Brzezinski. We value the ideas and thoughts off all our viewers and we will take your message under consideration.

Thank you again for writing to express your opinion about the show.

Sincerely,

__________________"


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Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 01:40 PM

No reply yet!!

Watching my inbox.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 09:38 PM

Youse guys and gals is the bes'.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 09:35 PM

Beautiful, sir!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 08:07 PM

The following posted by E-Mail 0800hrs 2nd July.

Dear Sir,

This story is a breath of fresh air for those of us (and there are many) who are sick to death of the sycophantic pandering to spoilt brats because Daddy is well heeled.

You are lucky to have just one journalist on your staff with the sense to correctly prioritise, the courage to act on her convictions, and the integrity to refuse to roll over when threatened by authority.

Disciplinary action would, in my view, be exceedingly ill advised. Better far to have her train the rest of your staff to her high standards.

Long may she cotinue to stand by her principles. I wish we had a few like her in the UK.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: goatfell
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 04:44 PM

I mean all she's famous for is that her father is a rich man that's all

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 03:09 PM

Scarborough is not a journalist but rather is a failed ex Republican Congressman who waved the flag for War and W.

Mika only refused to read the Hilton story as the lead story.

ON TV they say "if it leads it bleeds", ie a murder story or war story.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 03:03 PM

I have heard nowt back. However, I don't doubt they received thousands of e-mails, so I won't hold my breath.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: autolycus
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 02:57 PM

I should have added - - obviously, knooooooooooooowing as I did it was by email



    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 12:25 PM

Thanks, Bruce. No to that. I did the deed by e-mail.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 12:20 PM

Self-Addressed Envelope

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 12:19 PM

(But then, did you enclose an sae?)

I gave them my name and e-mail. What's an sae?

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 10:54 AM

No reply yet

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: autolycus
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 10:35 AM

The responses of the other jounos in that newsroom are exactly why what Mika did is so necessary. What they are, in effect, saying is, 'We comply and don't make waves and do what we're expected to do and certainly don't question.' And, astoundingly, if you question the way Mika did, you're not even a journalist !! Whoever controls the definitions, controls some of the action.

Does that remind anyone of any state and any period ?

If the responses I've got at work are anything to go by, there's a load of difference between the publics on either side the pond.

One was 'Will she lose her job?'

Another was, 'Is Paris so terrible?'

Lot of quietism in the UK.

And have any of those who've contacted the station had a reply? (But then, did you enclose an sae?)





      Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Jul 07 - 12:22 AM

"What journalism school did he graduate from!??"

Almost any - but the USQ School of Journalism (for the full thing!) :-) mentioned in this thread seems a likely place... :-)

I did a short Journalism Course that allows me entry into the AJA - was disgusted at the sensationalism expected...

Part QUOTE
This course is designed to introduce students to the Australian news media and their practices. Emphasis will be placed on the need for This unit is designed to introduce students to the Australian news students to think objectively about the main news events of the day, media and their practices. Emphasis will be placed on the need for and the ways the print media have reported them. Students will be students to think objectively about the main news events of the day, encouraged to achieve accuracy and objectivity within the constraints and the ways the print media have reported them. Students will be regularly imposed on print practitioners. Students will be introduced encouraged to achieve accuracy and objectivity within the constraints to news values, journalism research, interview skills, and the elements regularly imposed on print practitioners. Students will introduced that make up news stories. They will be given considerable practice in to news values, journalism research, interview skills, and the elements writing introductory paragraphs and handling direct and indirect that make up news stories. They will be given considerable practice in quotations. To pass this course students must complete and hand in all writing introductory paragraphs and handling direct and indirect terms of assessment. The final grade will be calculated on the total quotations, mark only. Grades will be awarded at the percentiles of HD = 90 or more: A = 80-89; B = 65-79; C = 50-64; F = less than 50.
UNQUOTE

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 11:51 PM

I like Tommy Chong's ideas regarding the story.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 09:03 PM

George Bush and Dick Cheney are bigger wastes of O2, IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 07:47 PM

Paris Hilton has got to be the biggest waste of oxygen on the planet.

I cannot imagine a more useless human being.

And I'm trying to be generous...

Ach,
Linn

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 07:32 PM

Views: 1,421,320

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:57 PM

"Still the video is very popular on YouTube. Footage documenting her revolt is now making the rounds on the internet, and has since been viewed on the video exchange website YouTube more than 870,000 times, the Australian reports."

Heartening, to be sure.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: alanabit
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:37 PM

Peace and Don Firth - I am proud to be in your company. I have just sent the following message via Peace's link:

I wish to congratulate the superb Mika Brzezinski for refusing to lead a serious news broadcast with a piece of irrelevant trivia. When there are more journalists of her dignity and integrity, the public will once again become informed enough to hold sensible debates on issues which matter.
Yours faithfully,
Alan Moorhouse

I hope a lot more similar messages arrive on that editor's desk.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:30 PM

The "school of the hairdoed news broadcaster". A line I recall from somewhere--or words to the same effect--is, "Edward R Murrow wouldn't have been worried about how his hair looked." That about sums up journalism to me, Don. How it got to be the way it is is beyond anything I can figure out.

From Wikipedia:

Edward R. "Ed" Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American journalist and famous media figure. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada. Mainstream historians consider him among journalism's greatest figures; Murrow hired a top-flight cadre of war correspondents and was noted for honesty and integrity in delivering the news. A pioneer of television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of TV news reports that helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

From that to the present--makes a guy shudder. I figure one of two things: Mika will be unemployed real soon (for all of ten seconds, IMO) or she'll be given a show of her own. It may be the wedge that breaks the stuff we are subjected to now. One can but hope.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 05:13 PM

Thanks for the kind words, Peace.

One of the things that really struck me in watching the video was the jelly-fish-like behavior of the other on-camera personnel. Did that guy actually say that because Mika Brzezinski refused to read the story, she is "not a journalist anymore?"

I'd say that he got it bass-ackwards. What journalism school did he graduate from!??

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 04:54 PM

Don, I wish I had your way with words. GREAT message--and I hope they hear it.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Don Firth
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 04:53 PM

Thanks for calling this to my attention!

I just sent the following e-mail to MSNBC Viewer Services:

It is notable by any thinking person that, within recent years, the "news" has been spending an inordinate amount of time on mindless trivia that used to be the province of the more cheesy gossip columnists. And, God help us, these bits of brain-garbage keep appearing as the lead stories in increasing numbers of newscasts.

Thomas Jefferson said that the future of our democracy depends on an informed electorate.

It's hard to have an informed electorate when the news media puts stories like "the continuing adventures of a brainless twit" as the lead story—presumably regarded by some editor as the most important story of the day because of where he or she put it in the newscast—ahead of reporting on the ins and outs of what's going on in the nation's capitol and the world at large that could possibly effect all of this country's citizens.

Cheers, balloons, great showers of confetti, and heartfelt gratitude to Mika Brzezinski for having the intelligence, the sense of proportion, and the guts to refuse to pollute the airways—and the minds of the viewers—with the tedious antics of Paris Hilton, and for running the script through the shredder!

There is a lady who knows what's important. I nominate Mika Brzezinski for head of MSNBC's news department.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: GUEST,Canadienne
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 03:48 PM

thanks for the link Peace, such honesty is refreshing these days

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 03:11 PM

I just sent the following to

[e-mail]

"I wish to extend my sincere congratulations to Mika for her stand on the 'Hilton' story. It is about time there was some integrity put back into the 'news'. I have been tired for years with the garbage pumped out by media--garbage that gives people like Ms Hilton coverage when she is simply a spoiled brat. Thank you Mika. You have a new fan."

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 03:09 PM

I sent a vote of support. Let's see if I get a reply.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 03:03 PM

Sorry. That is the link kat put up above. (It didn't work when I first clicked it. It does now.)

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 02:54 PM

To contact MSNBC, look here.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: autolycus
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 01:28 PM

Call me paranoid, kat, and I'd rather not give my email address to the company.

Thanks for your help tho' , and I too look forward to discovering how to contact Mika directly.




      Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 01:09 PM

Comment from a fan:

"On Thursday as the world's media was going loopy for Paris Hilton, Mika Brzezinski made news herself by refusing to read out a story about Paris's release from jail. Brzezinski thought the stroy was trivial compared to news that Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana was breaking from President Bush on the Iraq war. Despite her producer repeatedly putting the story as the lead and being patronised by her male colleagues Brzezinski held her own and ended up shredding the offending print outs. Go Mika!"

If anyone stumbles across her e-mail address or a method to send a message of appreciation, please post it or message me if you'd be so kind.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 01:05 PM

Here's a lengthier one.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Peace
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 01:01 PM

Here is the incident on youtube. Give it a look. LMAOROTF. It's about bloody time. Where are the political leaders with her guts?

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 12:25 PM

I think there's a lot going on behind the scenes in the news business these days.

The other evening I felt that Brian Williams of NBC was making a point- with a slight grimace he went from covering a bloody day in Baghdad to the Paris Hilton story.

I think it's time that the networks heard from us.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 11:45 AM

Sorry for not getting this all at once in a one posting. Here's is a list of ways to contact MSNBC, including, if you scroll down, a link to email joe at Scarborough country, which I would assume would be passed on to Mika, click.

Subject: RE: BS: congratulating a newsreader
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jul 07 - 11:34 AM

FOund this...CNN anchor Heidi Collins couldn't hide her disdain for this morning's news of Paris Hilton's release from jail. Co-anchor Tony Harris could be heard laughing in the background.