And people wonder why no one trusts the media (via Drudge):
If Michelle Kosinski's canoe had sprung a leak on NBC's "Today" show Friday, she didn't have much to worry about.
In one of television's inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera -- making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep.
Matt Lauer struggled to keep a straight face, joking about the "holy men" who were walking on water.
"Have you run aground yet?" Katie Couric asked.
"Why walk when you can ride?" Kosinski replied.
Later, an NBC News spokeswoman explained that Kosinski had been riding in deeper water near an overflowing river down the street, but there were concerns that the current was too strong for her.
"It's not like we were trying to pass it off as something it wasn't," spokeswoman Lauren Kapp said.
Riiiight.
Update 10/16 -- Here's the picture of the incident that's featured on Drudge:
Update 10/19: I've been wondering why this post has been getting so many Google hits, and now I know -- the video clip was featured on "The Daily Show" on Monday night.
this site is totally misleading. plays viewers for fools? it looks like they were just in the water where people put their boats in. and if there's deeper water but they couldn't do it there for safety, what's the difference. seems like YOU are playing viewers for "fools" when nbc was pretty straighforward and said they weren't intentionally trying to dupe anyone.
why do you make it seem like they wanted viewers to believe otherwise?
and by saying the the reporters "played people for fools," isn't that potentially libelous? if there was no intent to harm?
Posted by: sagreenburg | October 21, 2005 at 08:40 PM
I really don't think the intent was to decieve. You can clearly hear Michelle say "What's up fellas" as the beginning of the segment, so it isn't like she was hiding the fact that they were about to walk across her shot and reveal the depth of the water. Plus, are you suggesting that there really wasn't flooding??? There really was you know.
Posted by: wonkguy | November 06, 2005 at 06:54 PM