Friday, October 16, 2009

CNN: Chase News Network

Fox's Shep Smith must be psychic.  During wall-to-wall of the balloon boy Shep mused"I know where I would look for me. I would look under my bed right now."

Shep was warm.  The kid was hiding in the attic.

Apparently young Falcon's dad,  Richard Heene, is a little strange.  Is obsessed with aliens and UFOs.  Says he wants to meet aliens - on his MySpace page. Has California tax liens. Joseph Culligan's Web of Deception

NYDN TV critic Richard Huff needles cable TV over the overblown coverage:  [It] had everything that gives TV journalism a bad name - great pictures and plenty of hot air. For hours, the cable news networks stayed locked on the balloon, which, if the story was true, could have a 6-year-old boy in it.

You could say the media frenzy went over in some quarters like a lead balloon...

2 comments:

  1. On his 7 pm newscast, Ol' Shep said something to the effect that if he, when he was 6 years old, did something like this, his daddy would leave him with a "raw behind". There's a joke in there somewhere, but I don't want to go there.

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  2. If Richard Heene wants to meet strange aliens, he needs to go on MSNBC and meet the stellar line-up: Matthews the Mercilous, Queen Maddow, and Olbermann the Nut.

    Vinney

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