Watching the nightly news is so frustrating. What ever happened to who, what, where and why? There is a ship registered in Monrovia "steaming" toward the Gulf to assist in the clean up effort. So says the middle-aged frumpy reporter with the bad hairdo. She has the handle of chief environmental correspondent. I believe that was her in the report being hoisted in high in the air to board the vessel."It" apparently was transformed from something else into what it is now - a big ship that can "suck in" oil. Why the transformation? Who owns it? Who gave "it" permission to go from wherever it was to the Gulf? Is the Coast Guard aware of its pending arrival? Where was this ship a month ago? Why are we now just hearing about it? Are there others like it? None of these questions were answered in the report.
Granted these "journalists" are under extreme time constraints, but there is no excuse for doing such a sloppy job with such a serious subject. This is the failure of the media today, especially the television news, in this particular case - NBC. It's long overdue to ramp up their inadequate work and revisit the tenets of journalism 101.
