Thread: Diane Sawyer's Sensationalist Crap

Originally Posted by Syme

In conclusion, Diane Sawyer is a lying bitch who shamelessly distorts the facts in order to make effective self-defense seem infeasible, to blame violent crime on the tools used by the criminals, to make people terrified to keep a gun in their home, and to demonize gun shows and blame them for tragic crimes that they had nothing to do with.

Great write-up but really Diane Sawyer has nothing to do with this, it is the producers of the segment. She just is the reporter who gets paid to report whatever her producers put together. It's her job... it's wrong and not truthful, but she didn't come up with the idea for the segment I'm sure.

+rep though for a good write up about it, I was hoping to have time to watch it but won't bother wasting my time any more.

Okay, good point. Thanks for the rep though! I'm glad my writeup was informative. To be honest, I mostly wrote it for cathartic reasons.

Originally Posted by Syme

Okay, good point. Thanks for the rep though! I'm glad my writeup was informative. To be honest, I mostly wrote it for cathartic reasons.

100% of all opinion pieces are written for cathartic reasons, so no need to give full disclosure on that point

Originally Posted by Rick Scarf

Great write-up but really Diane Sawyer has nothing to do with this, it is the producers of the segment. She just is the reporter who gets paid to report whatever her producers put together. It's her job... it's wrong and not truthful, but she didn't come up with the idea for the segment I'm sure.

I'm not sure how accurate this is. My impression was that the reporters, especially the more senior ones (like, for example, Diane Sawyer) are able to exercise a great deal of control over the stories they air. I know this was a big to-do with Dan Blather during the Clinton-Lewinsky thing and, later, with the Bush-National Guard-forged memos thing. One of the reasons there was a lot of pressure to fire him was because (at least, for the Bush memos) he had the control over what stories got to air. I'm not saying this is always the case, or that it was the case in this particular story, but it's the impression I got from how Danny did things.