I have to agree with the dude he was “interviewing”. “This is journalism to you?”

But then after all jounalistic standards have gone down the toilet everywhere ever since TV stations started caring about ratings instead of reporting the news (say about the late 50s), so no suprise there.

Meanwhile, somewhere else in California a politician took a bribe, someone’s house burned down, and there was a 5 car pile up on a major freeway, but no one was there to report those. NOTE: Those items did not really happen, or rather they might have but I don’t want to go and look for real, unreported news things from that day, primarily because how do you find a news item that went un-reported?

Anyways, I think I’ve made my point, or at least circumvented it throughly enough to stop now. Aduei.

Wow…what a jackass. =/

Obviously a luddite. He only has a Blackberry because the company forced it on him. Did this guy not have toys when he was a kid?

I’m not surprised, honestly, after the Halo 3 stuff. They were reporting about its launch on mainstream news as if it were an actual normal newsworthy event….it wasn’t even a technology or entertainment segment. “Top stories today, Halo 3 launches” etc.

Brian is absolutely right, it’s not even about actual news anymore.

I watch that morning show on a more-or-less daily basis. He’s normally above the “standard” set for journalists. I missed the original airing, but what I saw was an attempt at humor that went very poorly - and not in character for him at all. Still, despite a few dozen comments true mouth-breathers about sleeping with his wife, (along with the more numerous, articulate criticisms) he did do an on-air apology
http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_eric/2008/07/i-guess-i-deser.html

Fred asked, you need to deliver, Hawk - http://www.willitblend.com:80/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone3g

That interviewer was out of his jurisdiction, trying to make fun of those people. But then again, media today is just a load of shit. The quality of entertainment has just dropped so far…Oh well! Time to go read more webcomics! ;D

It was so sad watching it. Not only was it not cool, it came from a guy who I’d never expect to come out of. I’m glad the anchors at the studio didn’t back him up on what he was doing.

Man that news reporter in an arse, shows that attitudes will never change, because some people think they are the ‘cool’ kids. There aren’t many ‘news’ programs that tell the news anymore these days.

well i’ve had problems, i went to the store(after i was told i can get a new iphone at half price, waited in line(8 hours)had an iphone in my hand and and was at the counter. the guy their says right to my face”sir you cant buy that” not even at full price. im pissed off and walk out the store half hour later i get a call from them asking what they can do to keep me. THEN they tell me i can buy one for full price and WITH a 150$ “service fee”, i simply told them where to shove it

This seems like a really lame attempt at that Triumph the insult comic dog’s routine of the people waiting in line for tickets. But this guy is not a puppet, and is an actual reporter, and most importantly he is really not funny. That “this is journalism” to you comment, just makes you cringe.

News? All that came across as was a simple-minded attempt at coarse, “nyah-nyah” humor best left on the playgrounds. Bravo to the gentlemen composed enough to make the reporter look like that ass that he is.

Allow me to play Promoter of the Faith, Devil’s Advocate as it were (of which by mean of the fact that he was doing this report, not his actions in doing the report).

Imagine, for a second…Haiti. Yeah, Haiti is a good example here. Every day, particularly in Port-au-Prince but in most other areas, people line up, waiting for the trucks (some from MINUSTAH, others black market) to come in with food (mainly, rice and beans). They wait in line for it to come, and they wait in line to receive (and sometimes pay for) their food. They do this every day, waiting in line for same damn thing. And sometimes, it takes a while.

The question I ask here is this: Do they need to stand in line for this? The obvious answer here is yes. They need food to survive. This is probably the only means of which they can acquire food.

What we saw on Friday was not that. What we saw were a bunch of well-fed, well-clothed people, some with food at that, waiting at length (some for an uncertain amount of days) for what is at the basic level a GADGET. In this case, said gadget is very similar to what they already have, be it a previous model or different kind. Further, it will very likely be replaced in no less than a few years, likely by the next edition of said gadget.

Do these people need this gadget? No, not really. As said before, these people already have a previous edition or a variation of said gadget. And even so, it is not exactly necessary for basic survival.

In other words, they want this item.

So the question is, Why are these people waiting in line, for days even, to get something they don’t need but want?

That alone, deserves some ridicule.

Promoter of the Faith rests, Your Holiness.
(I invoke copyleft, since this argument can be made at just about any big name phone or game console or computer or game that comes out that people wait in line for)

Now, about the guy: I’ll admit, he sucks. But someone had to do it, and who could, really? Colbert might make good satire, but often does ridiculous turnabout as though he needs the audience to realize it’s a joke; Stewart…I don’t trust Stewart; Leno would fuck it up; Letterman would be too old. I think the only two that I could think do the trick is Conan O’Brien and Rick Mercer (of CBC). But it was Friday (problem for the former), and Mercer already has a different report: How nobody dared showed up to buy the iPhone in Canada. AT ALL.

(sorry if this went on long…I feel like something had to be said in defense of the action, not the person)