Has CNN and Dr. Sanjay Gupta lost their damn minds?, page 1

reply to post by Feeling Frisky

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The crisis is the blank slate for the construction of their celebrity.
They dont care, I mean CARE. They are concerned, as in concerned about lighting, proper camera angle, how they spoke their lines. They will pay attention to proper scene content, make sure you have pain and suffering qued and ready to show, get some blood but not too much, we dont want tune out factor to rise.
It's a show, it's all pretend for them.
Oh yeah the real world is right behind them, but its just another backdrop, another stage,for the many takes they'll shoot, to get it right.

Gupta, sounds like something my grandmother scraped off the bottom of a pot!
He sold himself out years ago...isnt he a terrible actor?

reply to post by HappilyEverAfter

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Yeah it just disgusts me. I mean I know they have a job to do and all, but c'mon where is their compassion. I am not even that compassionate, but if I could find a way to get there and help I would be on my way. I feel so bad for those people. They are hurt and dying, and who do we send first to represent us a bunch of people who ask them stupid ass questions instead of taking off their shirt and juming in to give a hand.

One guy watched as some 10 year old girl was trapped under a building and she was almost free. Just one leg caught under a beam. Alll they needed was a power saw and generator, but they were having problems with the geneator and you know this guy has access to one, because Cameras and lights don't just power themselves.

It almost makes me ashamed i am from the same country as these jackasses on CNN,

reply to post by elfie

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I am sure he has helped a few, but why is he reporting and why is CNN wasting his skills reporting stuff when he could be helping. You know you can set someones broken bone with some sticks and duct tape. Just saying.

reply to post by Sean48

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Exactly. Don't just stand there and look pretty and keep saying the same stuff over and over like, "Haiti is the armpit of the western world", "millions may die", "there are injured and trapped people EVERYWHERE".

I dont even expect them to succeed in helping people just take off the pretty makeup and get your clothes diry and jump in and help.

What would get better ratings? Them going on and on filmed in perfect video or them dirty, sweaty, and in their commited to help? I would much rather see them try, then at least I could respect them.

Couldn't care less about CNN and Mr. Gupta ... but in the spirit of fairness:

latimesblogs.latimes.com...

And I believe, for what it is worth, that he's won a humanitarian award.

Don't know much about the man so I really can't comment further ...


But I guess what he really should be doing is keyboard play by play from his comfy chair.

reply to post by LadySkadi

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I was just watching CNN and there was another doctor being interviewed who was explaining that he would be going to Haiti to help out and I'm thinking did he really need to take precious time to be interviewed on TV first, telling everybody about this wonderful thing he's going to do when those people in Haiti aren't going to hold off on bleeding until he gets around to getting there. I mean, seriously, why wasn't he already there?

reply to post by MissSmartypants

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I don't know, logistics? There's many organizations waiting to get approval to go. How's the condition of the airport? Can flights get in? I mean, this is a major disaster and it just happened. It's not easy to work out these things immediately. I don't know how disaster logistics teams work but before presuming something, it would probably be worth some research, no?

Just an example:

Flights resume

A U.S. official says the Haitian government asked that the flights be stopped because there was no room at the airport in Port-au-Prince for more planes -- and there was a shortage of fuel for departing aircraft.

[edit on 14-1-2010 by LadySkadi]

reply to post by Feeling Frisky

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Yesterday, Dr. Gupta did a report in the early afternoon (German time) on CNN International. Right at the end of the report, he said that as soon as they were done with the report, they (he and the crew) were going to get back to helping people as much as they can.

CNN International (I don't know if it's on regular CNN) has a show called Backstory. In the show, they show what it's like behind the scenes of the newscast. I forget where he was, but Dr. Gupta was somewhere as a correspondent (much like now) and they showed how he was going to help people when he wasn't on the air.

My point is that he does help people, and is doing just that in Haiti at the moment. Thing is, he took a job at CNN as a medical correspondent. As such, he has to be in front of the camera sometimes. That doesn't mean that he doesn't help people at all when he is somewhere. In fact, I would bet that CNN sent him to Haiti because of his medical expertise, not so that they could get reports from a doctor saying, "Yep. People are dying." Everyone knew that already anyway.

reply to post by Feeling Frisky

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I turned to CNN, because they seem to report this better. Yes, I noticed Dr. Gupta reporting. He was saying things were hopeless. That doesn't really help anyone does it? Let's just say he gets an F for bedside manner.

I understand you can't be on air with an opinion and help people at the same time. Maybe off camera he is helping one person at a time. Also neurosurgeons are usually in a ivory tower of medicine, so getting dirty may shock him.

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