Video: Diane Sawyer recounts odd incident in which public doesn’t seem to trust media
posted at 4:39 pm on July 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
Share on Facebook | printer-friendly
Very mysterious. Specifically, it’s very mysterious that she would seem surprised given that the press is routinely near the bottom of polls about public confidence in institutions.
The ‘Busters harvested this one but you’re well advised to watch this first for context. And to think, Barbara Walters asking Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she’d want to be was once considered the low point of television journalism. Click the image to watch.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
Comment pages:
Not a mystery at all. She, like most in the MSM, simply have no clue about much of anything. Just that they are smarter than we are and they have to explain the news to us in very simple liberal terms.
db on July 12, 2007 at 4:47 PM
Ahead of the press we find…the White House. And trailing behind we find…wait for it…Congress!
Cute vid – Diane was laughing at herself. It’s awfully hard not to like her.
RushBaby on July 12, 2007 at 4:52 PM
Dear Diane,
we laugh because you think we’re stupid.
we laugh because your bias is like bull in a china shop.
we laugh because you tell only half truths
we laugh because you selectively report the news
we laugh because you make the news, not report the news
we laugh because your commentary is not news
we laugh because you don’t get it
we laugh because you are the joke
we laugh because bad news is news and good news doesn’t sell
we laugh because you think you know best
Kini on July 12, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Ya think maybe our MSM is out of touch with the common man?
Privatestock on July 12, 2007 at 4:56 PM
You have to remember, the only people who judge Journalists… are Journalists…
Pulitzer Prize???
Its like the Academy Awards… us poor dumb folk don’t get ta have a say…
MSM and Hollyweird think the only important places are the South West Coast, and the North East Coast… the rest of the country doesn’t matter…
Romeo13 on July 12, 2007 at 4:57 PM
They were all laughing. It felt like they got the joke as well.
Esthier on July 12, 2007 at 4:59 PM
But we let them get away with it because we keep watching the news and reading the paper. But on second thought, if we all stopped, I’m not sure they’d notice.
Privatestock on July 12, 2007 at 4:59 PM
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again.
I really view journalists as one of the lowest forms of life on this planet. Very little honesty or fairness involved in that profession, at all.
Vyce on July 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Come on it’s entertainment. I usually watch the Fox & Friends while getting ready for work but much of it is chatter to fill time.
Besides Diane Sawyer is from Ky and that gives her my seal of approval!
On a serious note, on 9-11 I had just come home from the gym and was having a cup of coffee with my wife (she likes Diane Sawyer) as the second plane went in. Everyone remembers where they were at, especially those who saw it happen in real time. Diane’s first reaction was a verrry quiet “Ohhh my God” as she heard what happened (she was facing the camera for broadcast and didn’t see it go in but got the news over the earpiece I think). Until Peter Jennings and the others arrived to continue the coverage she was the consummate professional, as were most journalists that day.
Bradky on July 12, 2007 at 5:01 PM
The question has always been whether these “journalists” are actually that stupid, or whether they know exactly what’s going on and just prefer to lie about it. I still tend to lean toward the lying explanation.
Halley on July 12, 2007 at 5:02 PM
Of course she believes Par__ Hil___ is news.
On-my-soap-box on July 12, 2007 at 5:19 PM
Never considered Sawyer to be a journalist. Fluffy questions are just a form of bland TV airtime filling. Had the impression that she reads other people’s work more earnestly to the camera than the next bloke. Nothing more.
naliaka on July 12, 2007 at 5:21 PM
I was in college, just waking up and getting ready for my first class. Before all the radio broadcasts had switched to news reports, I heard the DJs talking about and assumed it was a joke.
I mean a plane had just crashed into the Pentagon. That still feels unreal.
In class (the guy didn’t even cancel class) one student was on the phone with a relative in New York and gave us the news, as it happened, when the towers fell.
But yeah, everyone was professional that day and united. I miss the latter.
Esthier on July 12, 2007 at 5:33 PM
I don’t watch TV. How old is she or does she have a condition I’m not aware of? She sounds like Helen Thomas.
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 5:38 PM
What an Elitist A$$! What a great and sheltered world she lives in, when that’s her worst memory.
Show of hands… How many people here wish they could say the same thing?
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
paratisi
paratisi on July 12, 2007 at 5:39 PM
When Nixon won in a landslide, some MSM TV critic said”How could that happen, I don’t know anyone who voted for him!”
The joke is on us though because those elitists through their public positions actually have more power then the rest of us through their public positions. Look at Helen Thomas. She is no longer a reporter, she is a commentator She doesn’t even qualify to be in the White House press room but they are afraid to touch her.
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 5:43 PM
That reporter guy is laughing because he knows it’s true. He’s in on the leftie journalist conspiracy himself, and the jokes on us!
Numenorean on July 12, 2007 at 5:43 PM
I wonder at what point the MSM will wake up and realize they’re dinosaurs.
There isn’t anything on that’s actually news, it’s all soundbites and sensationalism for ratings to get more ad revenue. The rich get richer while the poor get…. less intelligent??
Instead of trying to get higher ratings with more and more (shorter and shorter) soundbites, the MSM should refocus and dig into depth on fewer, but more important issues, and then follow them through to their conclusions.
KMC1 on July 12, 2007 at 5:56 PM
Are you kidding?
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 6:01 PM
Truly one of the world’s most perplexing and vexing unknowns.
Since the White House Press Corps refuses to disseminate the info the White House is trying to get out to the public, why not boot them all out and open it up to new people?
Why is it set up so rigidly? Is there some LAW?
naliaka on July 12, 2007 at 6:02 PM
Rush has as much right to be there as Helen Thomas.
Now would that be fun! Those news confernces would be the highest rated shows on TV and Vegas would be taking bets on how long until David Gregory’s head explodes.
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 6:06 PM
What makes you say that?
KMC1 on July 12, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Media anchor people are great actors…it’s true. Most of them don’t even like the people they work with. Once that red light goes off it’s usually war!
SouthernGent on July 12, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Journalists live in a little liberal bubble, spew their agenda and then expect to be thanked for it. When they aren’t, they are in shock. Their contempt for the average American’s intelligence is astounding. Personally, I believe they think the only intelligent people live on the coasts and those people think as the journalists do…left, left, left, left, left. Fly over country is ignored.
katieanne on July 12, 2007 at 6:13 PM
The MSM is the propagandist arm of the left in the United States, if not in actual collusion then in ideology. To follow the truth to it’s conclusion would threaten everything they believe in. The MSM is not about honesty, it’s about keeping the common man in his place.
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 6:16 PM
I see your point. I was thinking it would be nice if they would do more in-depth reporting and focus on the truth and the facts, rather than the spin….. Sometimes my rose colored glasses get fogged up……
KMC1 on July 12, 2007 at 6:23 PM
I’ve been accused of that. Have you seen the ABC reporter who kept at Reid, asking if Iraqis will be safer if we would withdraw, until Reid blew him off?
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 6:28 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/07/what-about-th-1.html
This is the ABC reporter who is now on the democrat party enemies list. He better hurry up and do an attack piece on Big Oil or pharmacuetical companies before the democrats crush him.
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 6:32 PM
I like how her voice trailed off at the end when she saw George laughing too.
- The Cat
MirCat on July 12, 2007 at 6:34 PM
I’d almost feel sorry for the pathetic, attention-starved air-heads.
…If they weren’t all such arrogant asses.
logis on July 12, 2007 at 6:40 PM
When the guy standing said “the man from Massachusetts..” I immediately thought he was talking about her old fat squeeze, Teddy the Swimmer Kennedy…
Zorro on July 12, 2007 at 6:47 PM
Too bad she was booted from the jury, she’d do less damage there than in journalism.
infidel4life on July 12, 2007 at 6:53 PM
Anyone have her e-mail address at ABC so we can send her all the comments?
peacenprosperity on July 12, 2007 at 6:59 PM
Repeatedly tell yourself a lie and, in time, you will believe it.
She really does believe that her and her kind can tell the truth and be fair.
Helloyawl on July 12, 2007 at 7:36 PM
You can add me to the list of people who not only has zero respect for “journalist” but outright disdain for them. I view them as far lower on the scum scale than con artists who rip off the elderly and ambulance chasing lawyers who sue while coaching their clients to fake injuries.
They do come in higher than child molesters on my list–but not by much.
Faith1 on July 12, 2007 at 7:41 PM
Is it just me? Or did the guy standing give her a look that said, you know we shouldn’t be trusted. Probably just me
PowWow on July 12, 2007 at 9:13 PM
Obviously the truth hurts or we could consider that the courtroom laughter was the finding of a jury of her peers.
It’s nice to know those tall ivory pillars don’t completely remove narcissists from common scrutiny.
Speakup on July 12, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Heh – they should send her to CBS. Poor Couric can’t seem to dig herself out of a hole. At least Sawyer presents an “air” of seriousness as where you expect Couric to have a cooking segment.
thedecider on July 12, 2007 at 10:56 PM
Yes I agree.
Bradky on July 12, 2007 at 11:40 PM
Everybody knows Jefferson wrote, “[...]were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
But he also wrote some very negative things about the media of his day, such as this: “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”
Lots more here.
And here’s a great quote from George Orwell, “Homage to Catalonia”
JimC on July 13, 2007 at 12:35 AM
Every one of these fecal-matter-for-brains “journalists” is an elitist moron with a liberal agenda.
georgej on July 13, 2007 at 4:51 AM
Who’s Diane Sawyer and why should I care what she says or does? Don’t watch her and never will. Stopped watching network news 15 years ago and am doing just fine with my life thank you…
sabbott on July 13, 2007 at 6:35 AM
That’s the point, it takes an unbelievable disaster to make the press tell the truth and report the truth. As soon as the dust settled, it was back to the lies.
A quick disaster, and they have to think on their feet and tell the truth. Give them time, like Katrina, and the made up stories flow from their mouths.
right2bright on July 13, 2007 at 8:47 AM
Nope, that’s not it. I don’t believe she’s ever set foot on a “network news” set. She does the happy, silly news, and celebrity interviews…
Jaibones on July 13, 2007 at 9:21 AM
Ugh, I can’t stand Diane Sawyer.
CP on July 13, 2007 at 9:38 AM
logis on July 12, 2007 at 6:40 PM
The truth hurts, and she got a good dose of it…
doriangrey on July 13, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Comment pages: