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Tuesday, February 04, 2003
If a tragedy occurs and the news anchor isn't available...did the tragedy happen?
Far be it for me to defend Aaron Brown of CNN, who can be a bit obtuse when it comes to political matters, but was this really neccessary?
Aaron Brown, who has anchored much of the CNN coverage of major breaking news events for 18 months, did not appear until 10 p.m. on Sunday, more than 36 hours after the news of the shuttle catastrophe broke.
Mr. Brown, whom CNN has promoted as its leading anchor for major news, was on vacation Saturday in Palm Springs, Calif., playing in the Bob Hope Celebrity Golf Tournament.
The shuttle broke up about 6 a.m. Pacific time. Mr. Brown said he started his round of golf at 8:56 without hearing word about the incident until 10 a.m. (1 p.m. Eastern time).
For the next few hours, he continued to play golf. Mr. Brown said he made numerous cellphone calls trying to make travel arrangements "in a way that was not too disruptive" to the other golfers.
[snip...]
Some CNN staff members said they were surprised by Mr. Brown's absence, noting that anchors from all the other major news divisions took immediate steps to report the news.
Tom Brokaw of NBC News left a vacation in the Virgin Islands on hearing the news and was the anchor on Saturday for "The NBC Evening News" from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Does this mean that Brown is going to get his Kool Kids Media Studboy membership revoked? There is almost the implication that Brown was callous for playing golf after the explosion occured, something that Drudge plays up with his "CNN Anchor Played Golf While Shuttle Story Unfolded" headline. Does this mean that CNN doesn't have anyone else to deliver the news (sit down, Wolf...we're talking about journalists)? I'm all for media bashing when they have it coming, but this is just stupid.
Here's an alternate headline:
President Playing Frogger Beyond on XBox At Camp David While Astronauts Die
or
Public Going About Lives When Tragedy Occurs
At what point did it become mandatory for us all to sit glued to our TV's either waiting for something horrible to happen, or wallowing vicariously in it's aftermath?
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