BBC: Someone Senior Should Monitor TV

This from the BBC:

...the failure at the Convention Center would have been fairly easy to put right. Reporters drove there without problems. One took a taxi.

What, one wonders, was Fema/the mayor's office/the governor's office doing while all that was played out on live TV?

One lesson agencies might want to learn is that someone senior should do nothing but monitor TV.

Amazing as it sounds, I would feel that my tax money was better spent if they were to institute this policy right away (at least until We the American People learn how to get better control of our hiring process)

•  Curious

  What other new policies and jobs should be instituted right away?

  by A Ball of Lint on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:21:38 PM PDT

  •  Department of Anti-Stupidity

    Every other government agency is overseen by the Department of Anti-Stupidity whose job it is to hit anyone on the head who says something stupid until they stop saying stupid things.

    Bush might get quite a lump.

    by Arken on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:48:11 PM PDT

    •  DPP. Dept. of Politcal Patronage..

      That way all those stooges can't kill anyone. Michael Chertoff is the secretary..and his right hand man is Brownie.

      I forsee the DPP doing such things as providing us with definitions for such quotes as..kissing ass, sucking up, its not who you know but who you nose,legal definitions for such terms is he a son-of -a bitch, imbecile, "have and have mores."; when hell freeze's over.  They will fund such experiments to determine if pigs can fly and if there is any intelligence behind intelligent design and how that relates to no child left behind.

      The DPP motto will be.."Were here at DPP because Hurrican Katrina taught us croynism kills Americans."
      

      by americanforliberty on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 05:09:59 PM PDT

    •  How about just...

      ...an official Leader of the Opposition? Someone whose job description has "disagreeable" written right into it? And with power to get the ear of the press any time he/she wants?

      by sagesource on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 05:54:38 PM PDT

•  Sounds

  pretty simple doesnt it? One wonders at where they were getting their information from and how they could so obviously be grossly misinformed.Hard to beleive in this day and age.

  by eastvan on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:22:48 PM PDT

•  Ive worked on a lot of ops/watch floors

  in my day and I dont recall ONE in the last 10 years that didnt have a TV with CNN on 24 hours a day postioned in a way that the watch officer couldnt see it.  

  by calipygian on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:24:01 PM PDT

  •  yeah

    feigned naivety is a pathetic, pathetic reaction. these people don't just deserve to be fired- they deserve to go to jail.

    by A Ball of Lint on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:30:40 PM PDT

•  They could have Bush monitor it...

  ...but "My Little Pony" is not all the useful.

  by daulton on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:37:06 PM PDT

•  gang of fools

  I really think they dont get it. This has been story 1 with the networks and blogesphere for a week. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands affected,who are in fact witnesses to the whole debacle. I think the rethugs thought that since so many pay so little attention to what goes on they thought everyone was at the cottage or watching womens tennis.Not this time. Those guys(and their spinners)were too slow and everyone SAW it. Blame who they want. That pig wont fly this time.

  by eastvan on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:37:58 PM PDT

  •  yeah

    ... they don't realize that they're one trick ponies.  Fool me twice and shame on...

    by eyeswideopen on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 05:58:39 PM PDT

•  Television at the Ranch

  This is easy, run a news crawl on Blues Clues, Bush would be all over it.

  by PeteyPuck on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 04:41:20 PM PDT

•  They Do 24/7

  If the media in west bugfuck makes the slightest hint that dear leader is not the benison of god pouring down upon the world, they are on the horn in 20 seconds threatening to nuke the fucking editor's house.

  Fortunately, all they could see was a lot of coons  and poor umm, whaddyacallem, people, getting drowned and starved and dehydrated, now where is the urgency in that?

  Huh? tell me huh? I mean I really, like, y'know, really, want to know.

  by Deep Dark on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 07:13:26 PM PDT

•  Sounds stupid, but...

  ...all the guys in the Tom Clancy books were always glued to CNN.  

  These days, maybe they'd be watching CNN/I, Al-Jazeera, a raw BBC feed, and maybe Fox News.

  by Cooley on Tue Sep 06, 2005 at 09:56:07 PM PDT