{"id":4397,"date":"2014-01-07T03:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4397"},"modified":"2014-01-07T03:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:16:16","slug":"fox-talk-show-hosts-need-lesson-in-field-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4397","title":{"rendered":"Fox talk-show hosts need lesson in field reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Talking heads, by definition, are personalities who, well, talk.<\/p>\n

They opine on matters, regardless of their expertise — or lack thereof — on the subject.<\/p>\n

Such appears to be the case when “Fox and Friends” co-hosts decided to criticize a New York Times reporter who was on the ground in Benghazi, Libya, when terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate on Sept. 11, 2012 and ignited a fire fight that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/02\/war-reporters-fox-criticism-of-times-benghazi-r\/197394<\/p>\n

The Times published a lengthy report that dissected the events of that terrible day and reported that an anti-Islam video that had been posted on YouTube played a part in triggering the siege. Fox pundits have been claiming for more than a year that the video had nothing to do with the event and have declared that the Obama administration has been covering up the facts of the case.<\/p>\n

Now comes the Fox and Friends clowns who say that reporters in the field should have alerted U.S. authorities that Americans might have been in danger.<\/p>\n

How would they have done that? Steve Doocy, one of the Fox hosts, said the reporter “probably” had access to a satellite phone he could have used to call for help. Probably? <\/p>\n

Therein lies the difficulty in trying to offer opinions and analysis on things of which you have no knowledge. <\/p>\n

A reporter’s job is to report events in real time. “When you’re in the middle of a riot or an attack like that, first of all, it is not a reporter’s job to call the authorities and he would have to assume the authorities know about it. It seems so bizarre,” said Josh Meyer, director of education and outreach for the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative and a former Los Angeles Times national security reporter with experience in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

The Fox talking heads should stick to things with which they are comfortable, which is criticizing Obama administration policy. They should steer clear of discussing reporter’s responsibilities covering hostile action in a war zone.<\/p>\n\n

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Talking heads, by definition, are personalities who, well, talk. They opine on matters, regardless of their expertise — or lack thereof — on the subject. Such appears to be the case when “Fox and Friends” co-hosts decided to criticize a New York Times reporter who was on the ground in Benghazi, Libya, when terrorists attacked … Continue reading Fox talk-show hosts need lesson in field reporting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[589,1787,1790,2784,3287],"class_list":["post-4397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-benghazi","tag-fox-and-friends","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-libya","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}