It’s probably not a good sign when a reporter starts his report on “iPhone Mania” by saying that he doesn’t understand why these people are lining up for a phone. “It’s just a phone,” he whines just before approaching the first “subject.” Credit to the guy in line for calling the KTLA Reporter, Eric Spillman, a jackass for asking such stupid questions. Such is another example of how far local TV Journalism has fallen from a “search for the truth” to looking for a funny soundbite at the expense of those being “reported on.”
It probably didn’t help that someone, either AT&T or Apple, screwed the pooch with the activation process changing the cheering that was last year’s wonderful experience to jeering as is chronicled in the following video by Mahalo Daily’s Leah D’Emilio:
Music/Podcast: MacBreak Weekly 97: youtalking@me.com from the album “MacBreak Weekly” by Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Merlin Mann, and Randal Schwartz
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Sweet! But what can you expect from a “reporter” in LA?
When I was a kid I loved reading the paper, watching the news, got to be an obsession in high school and college – but in the last twenty years everything I loved about good journalism has gone the way of the dodo bird . . . so who do we have to thank for this? My vote goes to Rupert Murdoch, just watch five minutes of Fox News (shoot, Fox anything) and it becomes painfully clear that he may have single handedly dumbed down the USA as a nation and people.