Broadcaster says serious news at risk
Thursday, January 26, 2006
The anchorman whose boss once characterized him as ice compared with his successor's fire was anything but chilly in the impassioned speech he delivered Tuesday at The Society of the Four Arts.
"Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news," said Aaron Brown, whose four-year period as anchor of CNN's NewsNight ended in November, when network executives gave his job to Anderson Cooper in a bid to push the show's ratings closer to front-runner Fox News.
Brown said he tried to give viewers a balanced diet of light and serious news with NewsNight. "But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice," he said.
When NewsNight spent four hours covering the arrest of actor Robert Blake for the murder of his wife, Brown received thousands of e-mails criticizing the amount of time the show spent on the story. Nevertheless, that show, which aired in April 2002, received the highest ratings of any program since NewsNight's coverage of the November 2001 crash of American Airlines flight 587.
"Television is the most perfect democracy," Brown said. "You sit there with your remote control and vote." The remotes click to another channel when serious news airs, but when the media covers the scandals surrounding Laci Peterson, the Runaway Bride or Michael Jackson, "there are no clicks then," the journalist said.
With the departure from the screen of the "titans" — Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather — who "resisted the temptations of their bosses to go for the ratings grab, it will be years before an anchorman or anchorwoman will have the clout to fight these battles," he said.
Brown has spent most of his 30-year career in television news. He's covered everything from the Columbine High School murders to the aftermath of the space shuttle Columbia disaster. But viewers may remember best his on-the-spot coverage of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Aricle is here--- In 911InsideJobbers@yahoogroups.com, "perpetualynquisitive" <perpetualynquisitive@...> wrote:
>
> Nico, I have been going back over all the CNN coverage with Brown, every
> video with him is from that exact same angle.
>
> Note the 'impact' of the second hit is filmed at the same angle as his
> entire broadcast, as seen in the clip that I linked to, ergo same
> camera, it is just a zoom in that excludes him from our view.
>
> The flash of light shows that he is obviously not outside on a roof, he
> is inside a studio standing in front a screen.
>
> I have seen the same effect many times, as a friend of my mine's sons
> have a projector T.V. in their garage so that they can play Xbox games
> with 6 foot high characters.
>
> --- In 911InsideJobbers@yahoogroups.com, "Nico Haupt" nicohaupt@
> wrote:
> >
> > > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> > > Von: "perpetualynquisitive" perpetualynquisitive@
> > > An: 911InsideJobbers@yahoogroups.com
> > > Betreff: SV: [Fwd: [911InsideJobbers] Re: Controlled Demolition
> Limited
> > > Hangout?]
> > > Datum: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:09:34 -0000
> >
> >
> > Perp,
> >
> > but there is a transcript by himself where he's contradicting his own
> > timeline.
> >
> > Also this old CNN building was on 34th street, in a very far distance.
> > Please advise, if i confused the building.
> > I checked the building a while ago. It's possible, that he filmed from
> the
> > roof, but his office was some floors away from the roof.
> >
> > Also, it's VERY loud at 34st, much much traffic. I doubt that you hear
> > anthing and look out the window same time.
> > Meanwhile btw- if we both talk about same building (or it was a
> different
> > CNN reporter, not sure now), CNN moved out of this building.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Bingo, You win a virtual cigar.
> > >
> > > He was standing in front of a screen, yet CNN claims that he was
> > > covering the events from the roof of a building in New York.
> > >
> > > A 'Star' is Born:
> > >
> > > Sept. 11, 2001, was Brown's first day as news anchor for CNN (he had
> > > been with the network for only a year), and less than an hour after
> the
> > > first terrorist attack, he began covering the unparalleled event
> from a
> > > rooftop in New York City. His steadfast presence on that momentous
> day,
> > > and his continued coverage of the aftermath of the terrorist
> attacks,
> > > including reports from "ground zero," helped to calm and inform
> stunned
> > > viewers worldwide.
> > >
> > > Article is here
> > > <http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/04/9.9.04/Aaron_Brown.html>
> > >
> > > The flash of light would only have the effect seen in that clip if
> it
> > > were filmed indoors. I it was filmed outside in the bright sunlight,
> it
> > > would NOT interfere with the 'background'.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In 911InsideJobbers@yahoogroups.com, Rosalee Grable webfairy@
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > To me it doesn't necessarily show anything more omnious than Mr.
> > > > Newsbunny was standing in front of a screen that doesn't glare.
> > > > What are you catching that I don't?
> > > >
> > > > perpetualynquisitive wrote:
> > > > > Rosalee, you're on the right track. The flash of light is the
> cause
> > > of
> > > > > the anomaly.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is the effect that the flash has on the entire scene that
> gives
> > > the
> > > > > game away.
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In 911InsideJobbers@yahoogroups.com, Rosalee Grable
> webfairy@
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> I used to think it was just an artifact of the capture.
> > > > >> I see on close look that the scene's coloration takes on it's
> > > normal
> > > > >> coloration before the clip ends.
> > > > >> I can see that the light shows on the newsbunny's face and suit
> > > too,
> > > > >>
> > > > > so
> > > > >
> > > > >> it seems to me they turned on a wrong light and flipped it back
> > > off.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> If there is something more important I am missing, please tell
> me.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >> perpetualynquisitive wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> No takers on even guessing what the 3 frame anomaly is in the
> clip
> > > > >>> that I linked to earlier? The last 3 frames at the 28 second
> mark
> > > > >>>
> > > > > show
> > > > >
> > > > >>> something very telling, if you can recogize what it is.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> I can even replicate this anomaly with minimal effort.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Clip is available here
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
> > > > >
> > >
> <http://thewebfairy.com/wget/www.niftythings.org/usattack/videos/cnn-act\
> \
> > > \
> > > > > ual-crash.avi>
> > > > >
> > > > >>> --- In 911InsideJobbers@yahoogroups.com,
> "perpetualynquisitive"
> > > > >>> perpetualynquisitive@ wrote:
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>> **Edit
> > > > >>>> Possible projection-related problems?
> > > > >>>> **
> > > > >>>> Sorry wasn't fully paying attention when I posted, the above
> is
> > > > >>>>
> > > > > what I
> > > > >
> > > > >>>> meant.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>> I'll bet most of the people on this board have seen that same
> > > > >>>>
> > > > > anomaly
> > > > >
> > > > >>>> in the real world.
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>> --- In 911InsideJobbers@yahoogroups.com,
> "perpetualynquisitive"
> > > > >>>> perpetualynquisitive@ wrote:
> > > > >>>>
> > > > >>>>> You have the same video clip on your site here
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >
> > >
> <http://thewebfairy.com/wget/www.niftythings.org/usattack/videos/cnn-act\
> \
> > > \
> > > > > \
> > > > >
> > > > >>>>> ual-crash.avi> . Check out the 3 frame anomaly at the end of
> the
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > > 28
> > > > >
> > > > >>>>> second mark.
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>> Possible projector problems?
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>> This may end up as a double post, major system lock-up.
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >>>>>
> > > > >
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