What Could Be Done?

[FUNKMAN]

to curtail the media from asking provocative questions...

During the interview today with George Bush and Tony Blair the reporters kept trying to get a "timeframe" for the war. Honestly, can they not realize that the War has alot of unknowns, such as weather, the resiliency of the enemy, the weaponry of the enemy, etc...

I can only conclude that they are trying to manipulate "public opinion" and to me it's just plain wrong...

Tony Blair was very polite and just let them know that it will be over when we have "complete victory"

It wouldn't be right for Tony Blair or George Bush to lash back or talk down to the reporter, but shouldn't there be something in place that prevents a reporter from continuing to ask this question, shouldn't there be some type of guideline or restriction in place?

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This message was edited by FUNKMAN on 3-27-03 @ 3:10 PM

[TooCute]

Who would place these restrictions? The gov't? Yay. We can have even MORE biased reporting in the media. Fantastic. Maybe they can get an advisor from Al-Jazeera to help them figure out how it will work.

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[A.J.]

but shouldn't there be something in place that prevents a reporter from continuing to ask this question,

Simple: "Next question please."

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[LiquidCourage]

Yeah, the media has been just awful during this. You'd think we were getting thrown out of the country in this.

They never shut up about the "Fierce resistance."

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I suppose we want a "Stepford America".


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[FUNKMAN]

i forgot to mention that I was listening to the 88 News Station on AM Radio(WCBS I think) and they described Tony Blair's answer as "avoiding" the question...

I would say it can be handled on a question by question basis...

for now the rule is no more "when will the war be over?" questions. Ask yourself, could anyone really answer that question?

and if we are unable to apply some type of restriction, maybe the reporters seats could have an elctrical hookup and when they ask the "unanswerable" questions just because he wants to put the person he's interviewing in an uncomfortable position, than about 5,000 volts to the reporters hiney is in order...

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but seriously, we could think of something, we're smart people...

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This message was edited by FUNKMAN on 3-27-03 @ 3:37 PM