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DC Corporate Media Step On Activist Booby-Trap on "Condit Night In America" |
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by Mike Flugennock, via WJLA Ch.7, Wash DC
(No verified email address) |
26 Aug 2001
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Rob Naiman and Stacy Malkin from DC's MGJ, in local coffee shop, react to Condit interview on ABC, sabotage media-staged "local reaction" segment, leave blow-dried, teleprompter-reading local TV "reporter" stupid and sputtering. RealVideo, 01min 12sec. |
 Rob Naiman and Stacy Malkin from DC's MGJ, in local coffee shop, react to Condit interview on ABC, sabotage media-staged "local reaction" segment, leave blow-dried, teleprompter-reading local TV "reporter" stupid and sputtering. RealVideo, 01min 12sec. |
"It's 11:35...Maury Povich, do you know where your wife is?" --Jay Leno, NBC "Tonight", 08.23.01
For quite a while now, along with the instant focus-group interview, local corporate media outlets have relied on staged "local reaction" segments where, immediately after some huge, controversial, momentous news event -- such as Bill Clinton testifying to the Starr Commission via videotape while swigging Diet Coke -- remote live crews are dispatched to shopping malls, bars, or coffee shops to get some short sound-bite comments from locals, almost always fairly sheep-like, usually sticking to one pre-packaged point of view or another, in an effort to get the rest of us to get on board and get with the program... that is, until this past Thursday night, shortly after Rep. Gary Condit's interview on ABC "PrimeTime", when a crew from DC's WJLA, Channel 7, ventured into the Tryst coffee shop in Adams-Morgan and encountered local MGJ activists Rob Naiman and Stacy Malkin. Watch the hilarity ensue. |
See also:
http://flow.mediavac.com/ramgen/sinkers/2001/chan07Aug2301.rm
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